European authorities are seizing record quantities of increasingly pure cocaine, the EU’s drugs agency said in a report published Thursday, pointing also to a growing use of synthetic drugs and dealing via smartphones.
The rise in trafficking on social media, darknet markets and cocaine “call centres”, where dealers deliver quickly to users who order online, are creating a “potential ‘Uberisation'” of the drugs trade, the study said.
“The challenges we face in the drugs area continue to grow,” said Alexis Goosdeel, head of the Lisbon-based European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction…