A gram of cocaine in Berlin costs 60 to 80 euros. On its way here, it has destroyed rainforest, exploited farmers, financed cartel wars, corrupted states. These are the costs.
Documented. Verified. Verifiable.
Over 100,000 families in Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia grow coca - not because they want to, but because they have no alternative. Armed buyers. No roads. No market for legal crops.
In Colombia alone: over 300,000 hectares of rainforest destroyed since the 1990s. The plantations cut through national parks, indigenous territories, protected areas.
Mexico's drug war has killed more people than the Syria conflict. Mass graves in Tamaulipas, Guerrero, Jalisco. Bodies often unidentifiable.
The money doesn't buy individual officials. It buys systems. Honduras' ex-president Hernández: sentenced to 45 years in New York in 2024. He had protected drug labs with state resources.
Cartels long ago stopped dealing only in cocaine. The same trucks, same tunnels, same boats transport drugs, weapons - and people.
Your dealer didn't grow the coke. Every gram came through the same chain. Here are the most common objections - and what's really true.
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