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Significance
Wide availability of cheap, pure cocaine internationally is driven by record levels of coca cultivation, stockpiles of cocaine that accumulated during COVID-19 lockdowns and innovation in manufacture, trafficking and distribution.
Impacts
Further evidence of a cocaine surge will increase pressure on governments to scale up cocaine-related treatment services.
Governments will leverage Africa’s status as a transit hub and future cocaine market to boost donor support for anti-narcotics efforts.
Discoveries of coca bushes in countries such as Guatemala suggest cultivation may eventually spread beyond the Andean region.
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