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Wronguy
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International Cocaine Consumption: New York Blows away the Competition
#6333388 - 12/04/06 04:10 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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http://www.sharedresponsibility.gov.co/?idcategoria=612
International Cocaine Consumption: New York Blows away the Competition
Researchers have been scouring rivers in Europe and the US for traces of cocaine consumption. The result: Cocaine use is probably much greater than previously assumed -- and New Yorkers are the biggest coke-heads of all.
By: Markus Becker. Reprinted in part with permsission from Der Spiegel Online.
The world's biggest coke heads live in New York.
Last year, a study instigated by SPIEGEL ONLINE made big headlines: Experts had foraged Germany's rivers for a substance produced by the human body during cocaine consumption, and the results were bountiful. The extrapolated numbers revealed, among other things, that residents around the river Rhine's drainage basin near Düsseldorf consume roughly 11 tons of cocaine each year. The street value: around €1.64 billion.
Now the experts at Nuremberg's Institute forBiomedical and Pharmaceutical Research (IBMP) have expanded their method to other EU countries and the US. The results are similar to those of 2005: Previous official estimates for cocaine use, which rely heavily on police statistics, are apparently way too low.
For example in New York, IBMP teams searched the Hudson Riverand found the by-products of a projected cocaine consumption totaling 16.4 tons per year. There are approximately 3.4 million people aged 15 to 65 living in the Hudson's watershed.
According to the United Nations "World Drug Report," 2.8 percent of Americans in this age group use cocaine at least once a year. That would mean that about 95,000 people are responsible for an annual consumption of 16.4 tons of pure cocaine -- a per capita rate of 172 grams per year.
But the World Drug Report says the average user, at least in Central and Western Europe, consumes only 35 grams of pure cocaine per year. Unless the appetite of the average American is considerably greater, present estimates of overall consumption are likely to be too low.
Either there are more coke-heads than reflected by the official statistics, or they snort far more Charlie per year than yet realized.
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trauma47645
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Re: International Cocaine Consumption: New York Blows away the Competition [Re: Wronguy]
#6333646 - 12/04/06 05:32 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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well i am from the area in ny mention in the above article and i do i have to say that it snows frequently in this area..
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Re: International Cocaine Consumption: New York Blows away the Competition [Re: Wronguy]
#6333801 - 12/04/06 06:21 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Schwip
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Re: International Cocaine Consumption: New York Blows away the Competition [Re: Wronguy]
#6334074 - 12/04/06 07:27 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I wonder where Cleveland ranks......
-------------------- -------------------------------- " If the sky were to suddenly open up there would be no law. There would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories... the choices you've made, and the people you've touched. If this world were to end there would only be you and him and no-one else. " .............. "MAN! You know there aint no such thing as left over crack!"
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