the lower cost. Users can spend fifty dollars to one hundred dollars for one gram of cocaine powder. When it is sold on the streets dealers usually avoid being arrested by carrying very small amounts in their mouths. The police cannot search orifices and the dealer can swallow the drug easily. In dealing there is a hierarchical structure, with the people at the low end having to carry on them the larger amounts and engage in the riskier activities. For these reasons it is usually the small time, low end dealers who get arrested, not the individuals who are earning a great deal of money from this trade. The community is a small part of the whole that is affected by cocaine use and sales. The cocaine industry is a thirty five billion dollars illicit industry now exceeding Columbia=s number one coffee export.Even though, the cocaine industry is wealthy, but is also a illegal operation. Cocaine is governed by the Narcotic Control Act. Unlawful possession is a criminal offense. Upon summary conviction for a first offense penalty is a fine of up to one thousand dollars and/or one year; for subsequent offenses two thousand dollars and/or one year; upon conviction by indictment, penalty is up to seven years imprisonment. Trafficking and possession for the purposes of trafficking are indictable offenses, punishable by up to life, but no less than seven years. No matter how you look at the effects of cocaine there is nothing positive about them. JUST SAY NO TO DRUGS....
