Dope, Inc., the international drug cartel run top-down out of the City of London’s financial apparatus, has doubled its deadly production of illegal drugs over the period from 2007 to 2019. This is one of the shocking conclusions from a new study which EIR is conducting of the international drug trade, to again update the findings EIR made famous in its best-seller book Dope, Inc., commissioned by Lyndon LaRouche and first published in 1978.
Take the case of cocaine. In 2007, total worldwide potential production stood at 790 metric tons of pure cocaine equivalent; by 2019, that had risen to 1,886 metric tons – a 139% leap. The estimated total potential value of street sales of that cocaine jumped from $68 billion to $110 billion – a 62% increase. (The value increased by less than the production, because the price of cocaine dropped during this period, as part of an intentional “marketing” strategy of Dope, Inc. to extend its New Opium Wars to new victims worldwide.)
The pattern is similar in opium and its refined product, heroin. In 2007, total worldwide potential production (measured in equivalents of a pure gram of heroin) stood at 402 metric tons; it grew to 723 metric tons by 2019 – an 80% rise. The potential street value correspondingly grew from $$117 billion in 2007 to $172 billion in 2019 – which is a 47% increase. Here too, declining prices, as well as increased potency of heroin (in the U.S. and European markets alike), explain why revenues have increased more slowly than total production.
