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Over one in every 10 banknotes in circulation in UK are contaminated with cocaine, police drug experts have said.
Finding of the Home Office's advisory council for the misuse of drugs (ACMD) substantiates earlier studies that indicate the use of cocaine powder in Britain is the highest in Europe, and higher than in the US and Australia, The Guardian reports.
Police experts said cocaine is now being widely sold on the streets and added it was being cut with MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine), which leads to ecstasy, in clubs.
They suggested longer pub hours since 2006 might have increased its use, as cocaine powder is widely used during night out to carry on drinking without falling asleep.
A Kent police drugs expert, PC Adrian Parsons, said cocaine was widely used by people aged between 18 and 45 years and that people whom he checked following a positive palm swab on his scanning machine at nightclub doors were working, had their own homes, and no previous convictions.
"Gone are the days of the 1980s when it was just champagne charlies in the City. That's out of the window now,” he said.
The probe heard that cocaine was most commonly sold between £20 and 30 deals for 0.4 grams or 0.6 grams with a purity ranging between 15 and 30 per cent.
"There is a lot of money in it," Parsons said, adding profits from crime often funded human trafficking and other organised crime.
Source http://www.indianexpress.com/news/is-uk-on-a-cocaine-high/883253/
Finding of the Home Office's advisory council for the misuse of drugs (ACMD) substantiates earlier studies that indicate the use of cocaine powder in Britain is the highest in Europe, and higher than in the US and Australia, The Guardian reports.
Police experts said cocaine is now being widely sold on the streets and added it was being cut with MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine), which leads to ecstasy, in clubs.
They suggested longer pub hours since 2006 might have increased its use, as cocaine powder is widely used during night out to carry on drinking without falling asleep.
A Kent police drugs expert, PC Adrian Parsons, said cocaine was widely used by people aged between 18 and 45 years and that people whom he checked following a positive palm swab on his scanning machine at nightclub doors were working, had their own homes, and no previous convictions.
"Gone are the days of the 1980s when it was just champagne charlies in the City. That's out of the window now,” he said.
The probe heard that cocaine was most commonly sold between £20 and 30 deals for 0.4 grams or 0.6 grams with a purity ranging between 15 and 30 per cent.
"There is a lot of money in it," Parsons said, adding profits from crime often funded human trafficking and other organised crime.
Source http://www.indianexpress.com/news/is-uk-on-a-cocaine-high/883253/
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