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Cocaine & Roses: A Valentine's bust in Amsterdam

Cocaine-less rose in Amsterdam

 

It appears Europe’s love of cocaine is even expressed around Valentines Day. According to Reuters:

A week before Valentine's Day, a consignment of cocaine was found hidden among 20,000 roses from Latin America at Amsterdam airport, Dutch authorities said Wednesday. The roses, a popular February 14 Valentine's Day gift, arrived last Sunday on a flight from Bogota, Colombia, which stopped over in Puerto Rico, the public prosecutors' office said in a statement. The drug was found in cellophane packets hidden in boxes containing the roses.

 

In recent years, Europe has been consuming more cocaine than anywhere else in the world. And smugglers are getting more creative to feed the continent’s growing appetite. Last season, I headed to Europe to find out just how all that cocaine was finding its way there. I spoke with mules who had swallowed as much as 11 kilos over several trips and women who’d been trafficked from Africa to help fund the cocaine trade. Its a rabbit hole that goes very very deep to help meet a growing demand.

 

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11 comments // Cocaine & Roses: A Valentine's bust in Amsterdam

  • blindedbyfaith
  • CaliCritic
  • LozRiva
  • stewgame
  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  

    • so when did the Features section turn into the almost exclusive domain of Current staff? 5 out of the 6 Features have been put up by Current staff...second day in a row that I've noticed this. New policy of the ever popular CEO?

      really good Vanguard video though...

    • 2 years ago
  • cynker
  • TalktoMeGoose
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      TalktoMeGoose  

    • I had cocaine on my itemized bill from the hospital, for a bronchioscope. Fifty bucks I was geeked and horny in my hospital bed. I had no idea why..till later. I remember the pulmonologist misting it in the air and inhaling some.

    • 2 years ago
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  

    • It's not the substance itself that's to blame. Doctors are still legaly allowed to
      dispense it as a local anesthetic. The Bolivian and Peruvian indians chewing coca leaves can't go insane. It's the ether and other dangerous chemicals that
      the jungle factories mix into it to concentrate it that makes it a dangerous drug.
      (If you were around during the early 1980s, then you know why Len Bias, the basketball playwer died. The ether residue destroyed the valves in his heart.
      After he was snorting it all night long, his heart likely fiblerated out of control.)
      And re refining it even further into crack makes people criminaly insanely violent and stupid. All that's a pretty far cry from the 1 grain that was used to make the genuine coca cola of the 1870s. Like the opium poppy that produces morphine, coca is a God send in the medical world. It's only the
      evil abuse of it by greedy humans that makes it diabolical. Like any other element of nature, if you use it properly, it's your friend and ally. If you don't respect its power, and misuse it, you do so at your own peril. Relax Cannabis
      can regenerate your brain. My Dutch breathren are bright and level headed enough to permit that substance.

    • 2 years ago
  • jswiz
  • bailey78
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