B.C.’s gang war: How cocaine makes it to Vancouver’s streets

“VANCOUVER — Deep in the jungles of Peru or Colombia, a kilo of cocaine can be bought for as little as $3,000.
By the time the lucrative white powder makes the 7,000-plus-kilometre journey to the streets of Vancouver, a kilo is worth as much as $30,000.
It is that huge increase that fuels the greed of B.C.-based crime groups, who have developed sophisticated north-south networks to smuggle coke into Canada and their currency commodities — marijuana and synthetic drugs — south.”

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