
Another Failure for the French Government: Drug Market at All-Time High in France
For the first time, the cocaine market’s size has surpassed that of cannabis.

For the first time, the cocaine market’s size has surpassed that of cannabis.

The gang’s leader was arrested earlier in Turkey for separate charges.

“Cocaine has become fashionable,” according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.

The rise in drug use accompanies an estimated 35% spike in cocaine cultivation in a single year, between 2020 and 2021.

The victim is the niece of one of the biggest cocaine smugglers Belgium has ever produced, according to authorities.

The Flemish port city of Antwerp, already known as being Europe’s ‘cocaine capital’, has fast become a place where drug cartels and their proxies work out their spats.