I think most (smart) cocaine operations are doing is deverting shipments to europe instead of th us, meth is the the craz in the us not coke. You get up $20000-30000 for it a kilo here but in eurpe its woth almost triple ive read $85000. Simply economics, if it were up to me there wouldnt be any cocaine crossing the boarder its not worth the risk, but europe is worth the risk.
thats pretty much spot on imo. coke had its heyday in the 70's, followed by crack in the 80's but after that it seems to have fizzled out, replaced by meth as you stated in the "upper" catagory. also, as you mentioned cocaine fetches a much higher price in europe these days. heroin is the big moneymaker at the present time in the us as far as imported drugs go, particularly in the northeast.
