Farmers
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.
Learn moreThat's the average street price in Berlin, 2026.
Purity in Berlin: 80-85%
Source: German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), EUDA (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction)
Rising demand, highest purity in continental Europe
6 cocaine processing labs dismantled 2023-2024, growing entry point
Atlantic entry point, #1 seizure city in 2025 (3.1t)
Europe's largest transit hub (Port of Rotterdam)
Second-largest market in the EU
Entry port for South American routes
Balkan route as transit path
Higher price due to extra transit steps
80-100 CHF, highest purchasing power
£80-100/g, highest per-capita use in Europe
Prices: EUDA European Drug Report 2024, national reports. Purity: Drug Checking Berlin, Trimbos/DIMS, OFDT, PNSD, GÖG, SSI, UK Home Office, Saferparty.ch, Polícia Judiciária Portugal (2022-2025). Rounded averages.
The street price only shows a fraction. The real price is paid elsewhere. By people who were never asked, and by places that can't defend themselves.
For those 60-80€ in Berlin:
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.
Learn moreIn Colombia alone: over 300,000 hectares of rainforest destroyed since the 1990s. The plantations cut through national parks, indigenous territories, protected areas.
Learn moreMexico's drug war has killed more people than the Syria conflict. Mass graves in Tamaulipas, Guerrero, Jalisco. Bodies often unidentifiable.
Learn moreThe 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.
Learn moreCartels long ago stopped dealing only in cocaine. The same trucks, same tunnels, same boats transport drugs, weapons - and people.
Learn moreBerlin consumes 3-4 tons of cocaine per year. This demand finances organizations that have killed over 350,000 people in Mexico since 2006.
One gram is not responsible. But every gram is part of it.
Rainforest. Exploitation. Violence. Corruption. Human trafficking. Every gram finances all five.
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