A multi-millionaire rabbi who took part in cocaine parties with prostitutes in a flat nicknamed the “synagogue of sin” has been convicted of possessing drugs.

telegraph.co.uk
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Da sitzt du jetzt. Auf einer dreckigen Couch in dieser Garage irgendwo im Westen Niederösterreichs. Leere Bierdosen und schimmlige Pizzakartons komplettieren die trostlose Kulisse. Und genau hier, im Hinterhof des Spießbürgertums, liegt die Euphorie zum Greifen nah. Sie kommt aus dem durchsichtigen Säckchen, das Christian mit schweißnassen Händen vom gleichaltrigen Sebastian* entgegennimmt. Schnell ist das Pulver auf einem alten CD-Cover zur Line geformt. Durch einen 100-Euro-Schein zieht Christian das Zeug wie Koks - "das Brennen in der Nase ist die Hölle" - dann gibt er die Banknote dem Dealer.

kurier.at

The drugs were hidden in containers of bananas brought into Tarragona from Ecuador

Three suspects have been arrested in Valencia after the discovery by the Civil Guard of more than 140 kilos of cocaine brought into port in Tarragona on containers of bananas imported from Ecuador.

typicallyspanish.com

A rabbi from the UK has been accused of financing a drug-dealing business and offering cocaine to girls in exchange for sex.

A court in Manchester has heard that Rabbi Baruch Chalomish, of Salford, rented an apartment where he could run a commercial cocaine supply operation.

macaunews.net

A third chemical – cocaethylene – builds up in the liver over a number of years among those who mix the two drugs. And this is now having major health consequences

"I first took coke when I was 18 and at university. I remember two friends who did chemistry told me I should get really drunk first because it would mix into this new chemical in my blood and make me even higher," a 30-year-old woman who works in publishing told the Observer yesterday.

u.tv

Cocaine is a central commodity of the neoliberal age; so, too, its re-processed form (“crack”) for the desperately poor in de-industrialized cities of the North and South Atlantic. First announced by Richard Nixon in 1971, the “War on Drugs” predates the rise of cocaine and crack by nearly a decade, but in the 1980s and 90s the “War on Drugs” was redoubled in response to the explosion of the cocaine business. It now ranks as the U.S.’s longest-running military-police campaign. Thus if we look at cocaine as a social hieroglyph—not as a thing, but as a complex relation between networks and organizations of people, as well as between states and bureaucracies—we may glimpse some of the distinguishing features of the contemporary world.

brooklynrail.org

U.S. authorities found five tons of cocaine aboard a semi-submersible boat during a joint operation conducted last month by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Guatemalan army off Guatemala’s Pacific coast, a prosecutor said.

“Based on the report we received from the DEA, the submarine was transporting 4,992 kilos of cocaine,” the head of Guatemala’s drug crimes prosecutor’s office, Leonel Ruiz, told Efe.

laht.com

While cocaine to-date is mainly concentrated in western Europe, the study showed new trafficking routes through eastern Europe "may have impeded interdiction efforts."
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Brussels -- Cocaine's relentless march through Europe's social strata showed no sign of abating in 2009, an annual report into drug use and addiction showed on Thursday.

"Cocaine and heroin continue to maintain a firm hold on Europe's drug scene, and there is little to suggest at present any improvement regarding their use in Europe," said Wolfgang Goetz, who heads the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

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