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Aussies Pay More For Cocaine

June 6, 2017 by Craig Hingston

Wondered why so much cocaine is coming into Australia? It’s because the dealers can make more money here than any other country on earth.

The 2017 Global Drug Survey has found that cocaine in Australia is the most expensive in the world.

17.5% of illicit drugs sold Down Under were cocaine. This compared to cannabis (48%) and MDMA (21.4%). LSD (12.1), magic mushrooms (8.6) and nitrous (8.2) followed by amphetamines, ketamine, poppers, shisha and methamphetamine. Of course, alcohol is the most popular drug taken by Australians. Nine out of 10 people surveyed had consumed alcohol.

With cannabis topping the charts for Most Popular Illicit Drug it came as no surprise that Australians are the biggest users of bongs in the world.

Cocaine sells for about $15 per gram in South America and $75 per gram in parts of Europe. Compare that to $375 here in Australia.
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June Drugs Jungle

June 6, 2017 by Craig Hingston

Yes, it is a jungle out there. We’ve got billions of dollars of illicit drugs being sold in cities and towns across the nation and the authorities are struggling to find them.

Since April we have been passing on the main drug reports appearing in the media. They are scary, tragic, almost impossible to believe.

June started with the folllowing news breaks…

A man who randomly attacked seven people in Sydney during an Ice-fuelled rampage will be in jail for at least five years.

Residents of Geelong are at a loss as to how they can stem the Ice-related crime spree which has hit their city.
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Drugs Worse Than Alcohol In WA

May 22, 2017 by Craig Hingston

Authorities have identified some cities and suburbs as “Ice corridors” where there is a lot of activity. Logan in Brisbane is one. Bunbury in WA another.

In Western Australia, the statistics for drug possession and drug use are not good. According to an article in a number of WA newspapers they say the methamphetamines epidemic “shows little sign of abating.” To the point that there are now more people being treated for drug use than there are for alcohol.

The number of treatments through drug and alcohol services, where the primary substance of concern was methamphetamine, leapt from 6705 treatments in 2015 to 7868 treatments last year. That’s a huge increase of 17 percent.
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May Madness 3

May 19, 2017 by Craig Hingston

People continue to attempt to smuggle illicit drugs into the country…crimes including murder are being related to drug uses…governments and security authorities are receiving millions of dollars to try to better tackle the drug epidemic and they are holding special forums to discuss the seriousness of drug use in our nation.

The Geelong Advertiser revealed that the drug Ice played a part in almost all murders in that city over the past five years…

Needle and syringe program (NSP) workers in Mildura have received extra training to help them work with Ice users…

460 grams of methylamphetamine, 11,000 MDMA tablets, 206 grams of cocaine and two kilograms of cannabis have been seized by South Australian police and 12 people were arrested, six of whom are bikie gang members…
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May Madness 2

May 19, 2017 by Craig Hingston

As the month rolls on so too do the drug news stories which demonstrate that all areas of society are being affected by illicit drug use. For example,

A 33 year old man was jailed for stabbing his older brother who was on an ice-fuelled rampage…

The NRL wants to make secret records of illicit drug use available Le to protect clubs from signing players already hit with a first strike…

An accused Ice addict has been charged with neglecting her four month old son who was found in a seriously malnourished condition…

Drug dealers convicted of trafficking commercial quantities are serving as few as four-and-a-half years behind bars, on average, despite the maximum sentence of life being offered to courts…
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Drugs Are Tops At The Top End

May 11, 2017 by Craig Hingston

A story in the NT News confirmed that the use of ecstasy in Darwin is nearly four times higher than anywhere else in the nation, making our northern most city the Ecstasy Capital of Australia.

Darwin outranked 50 other cities and regional centres tested for the drug.

Locals up there also like cocaine because, apart from Sydney, Darwin had the highest use of ‘Coke’ than anywhere else.

They say things happen in threes and Darwin also took the top prize for having the highest consumption of alcohol in Australia.

The statistics came from the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program Report which tested the contents of waste water samples from 51 sewage treatment plants across the country.

Where Do Drugs Come From?

May 11, 2017 by Craig Hingston

When Australian Border Force officers discovered a huge haul of drugs – 350 kilograms to be exact – valued at $186,000,000 on the docks of Melbourne it was in an unlikely place.

The drugs were cleverly inside mining machinery.

Where has the shipment come from?

The drugs had made a long journey to land on our shores. Apparently, the haul included cocaine from Colombia in Central America and methamphetamines from China.

The ship had come from a port in South Africa.

Ice Wars Documentary

May 11, 2017 by Craig Hingston

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics well over one billion dollars a year is being spent by drug users on amphetamines which include crystal meth’…or as it is more commonly referred to, Ice.

If you needed a clue that it is finally being recognised as a severe national problem, the ABC ran a four part documentary called Ice Wars.

Their camera crew went out with the police in the streets, on drug raids and seizing drug labs.
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Billion Dollar Drug Binge

May 11, 2017 by Craig Hingston

When the New South Wales Government spent an estimated $1.8 billion on the South West Rail Link in Sydney it was criticised as being a waste of taxpayer dollars.

The same Government was accused of being irresponsible and causing cost blow outs when the North West Rail Link was unveiled at an estimated cost of $12.5 billion.

When the Federal Government announced that it was planning on spending $12 billion to buy 58 space-age jet fighters there were many dissenters about the real value we as a nation would receive.

Prime Minister Turnbull announced a major upgrade to the Snowy Hydro with a price tag of “a mere” $2 billion.

However, these figures all take a back seat when we look at the subject of drugs. Australia spends $17 billion each year on illicit drugs (not including alcohol).
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