Misleading title. While technology may be a factor, the article makes it quite clear that one of the main reasons is that the production in Colombia has more than doubled between 2013 and 2017.
> The cocaine resurgence is fed by a growing supply. According to the UN, the estimated global manufacture of the drug hit the all-time record of 1,976 tons in 2017, the latest year for which data are available – more than twice as much as in 2013, and 25 percent more than in 2016.
Is cocaine use throttled by supply? Not by the success level of anti-drug enforcement, or demand?
Naively, it seems that it's trivial to scale up production of illegal drugs. Growing it is the easiest part. Transport and delivery and sales is harder. Perhaps production is up because demand is up?
and they say purity is up. after a while even the most determined addict gets tired of paying tens or hundreds of dollars a day for little baggies of soap and meth.
So being a teen in the 80s in SoCal, there was a lot of cocaine. At every party more then one person had it. In the 90s it dropped off. In the last few years here in Silicon Valley I have noticed it has made a huge comeback based on the fact at parties at least a few people now have it again.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug that makes you want to get more cocaine. The interesting thing now is I noticed it is more social and the use of it is better controlled by the user, being a fun drug for parties, but not something you do everyday which is where it almost always let to in the 80s.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 29.1 ms ] thread> The cocaine resurgence is fed by a growing supply. According to the UN, the estimated global manufacture of the drug hit the all-time record of 1,976 tons in 2017, the latest year for which data are available – more than twice as much as in 2013, and 25 percent more than in 2016.
Naively, it seems that it's trivial to scale up production of illegal drugs. Growing it is the easiest part. Transport and delivery and sales is harder. Perhaps production is up because demand is up?
Cocaine is a hell of a drug that makes you want to get more cocaine. The interesting thing now is I noticed it is more social and the use of it is better controlled by the user, being a fun drug for parties, but not something you do everyday which is where it almost always let to in the 80s.
You would think technology would have been as much responsible for easier enforcement of the law.