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Anyone else feeling a little sick or is it just me…
Cocaine is easily one of the biggest party drugs in the country right now due to its… well, do we really need to explain why? One aspect of it that isn’t so popular, however, is its ever-growing price tag which is continuing to soar. But you’d expect that with the rising cost of a product, its quality would remain of a satisfactory level. It seems, however, that the inverse has been taking place with the good old angel dust, with new Netflix doco Narcos on the Front Line exposing just what goes into one of the bedrocks (mind the pun) of Australian party culture.
Beginning in the mystical jungle labs of Colombia’s mountainous regions, the doco uncovers the process of making coke in seven, slightly anxiety-inducing steps. From the dedicated farmers that strip coca leaves from plants to the cement used to bond it and the petrol its then dumped into… you get the picture. To top it off, however, sulphuric acid (you know, one of the most deadly type of acids known to man), is then used to separate the cocaine paste from the petrol. Essentially, its pretty much every deadly and toxic substance known to man all in one place.
The doco also touches on the insane demand for Coke in Australia, with it copping between $120,000 and $400,000 per kilo. We’ve become such a big consumer of the drug that traffickers have begun to diverge routes to Australia, with Colombia National Police Major Luis Guillermo Narvaez Freyre adding, “the huge value of cocaine in Australia, for instance, it is very productive for a criminal or for a Narco to sell a kilo in Australia because it’s a very high value and the earnings are incredible.”
Call me crazy, but I guarantee that despite the show’s revelations, there’ll be no short supply of bags in Sydney this weekend. Check out the full teaser for the show below.
