This trend, originally limited to a few countries and to a handful of synthetic drugs (amphetamine, methamphetamine, phencyclidine and LSD), has over the last five years been affecting entire geographic regions, using highly sophisticated methodology.

You put the stick in the powder to take the sacred ashes well, they're not ashes, they're burnt limestone to empower the coca leaf, to change the pH of the mouth to facilitate the absorption of cocaine hydrochloride.

You put the stick in the powder to take the sacred ashes well, they're not ashes, they're burnt limestone to empower the coca leaf, to change the pH of the mouth to facilitate the absorption of cocaine hydrochloride.

UNODC accorded priority to addressing the counterflow of precursors used to transform coca paste into cocaine hydrochloride and was grateful to the Government of Venezuela for its efforts to curb the trafficking of cocaine out of Colombia and of precursors into Colombia.