Drug experts tell VICE World News that traffickers are increasingly dissolving pure cocaine into materials and extracting it in large scale European labs.
Drug traffickers are transforming the cocaine trade by setting up super labs in Europe capable of turning seemingly innocent materials into high grade white powder.
Drug gangs are increasingly opting to finish off the cocaine-making process in Europe, the world’s second largest cocaine market after the US, because it is cheaper, easier to smuggle and more lucrative.
Police are finding a rising number of labs where pure cocaine base, dissolved into materials such as plastic and charcoal for transport, is extracted and processed into powder ready for distribution across Europe. Labs are also being used just to process smuggled cocaine base into high purity, street-ready powder.
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