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    cocaine


    1. They had, however, been scouting out a likely target and had chosen the slightly built young lady with the bulging money belt as the best source of the filthy lucre that they needed to maintain their lighter fuel and crack cocaine habits


    2. “My father did that, when he was drunk or on cocaine


    3. "When I cut open one of the gray packages of cocaine base, I left the [empty] gray package in


    4. The charge? Possession of more than 50 grams of cocaine


    5. Hankins was now a victim of the system, of the war on crack cocaine


    6. perhaps the cocaine snorted in the toilet an hour earlier


    7. I went through four years of high school in the mid fifties without learning there is such a thing as marijuana, to say nothing of cocaine, heroin, or any of the other present distractions from a sensible life


    8. Without his few talents he would be just another cocaine crazed puritan, or a


    9. absinth, ounce of pure cocaine, camera and replacement suit in his car, checked spare wheel,


    10. Not surprisingly, there have never been calls to drug test corporate executives who received corporate welfare, even though drugs like cocaine are largely used by the well to do

    11. Worst of all was the hysteria over crack cocaine


    12. New sentences for crack put users in prison 100 times longer than for the same amount of powdered cocaine


    13. Standing before her, was a man who fed cocaine to a fourteen year-old girl to entrap her into a life of prostitution, yet she could detect not the slightest trace of evil lurking there or in his body language, which always spoke so loudly if one paid attention


    14. The marriage was a horrible experience: cocaine abuse, domestic violence; the works


    15. Among the Costa Rican regulars was a federal narcotics officer with hanging jowls and baldhead who, according to her, stole kilos of confiscated cocaine and sold them himself


    16. She could smell the cocaine somewhere in the room - the faint tingle in the back of her throat, the itching in her nose


    17. So right away, I start worrying that maybe his plan includes robbing our next load too, so I ask what she knows about cocaine shipments and the whore starts in talking about your nigger boyfriend


    18. After all, it shouldn’t be so very difficult to grab a load of cocaine from a log barge, but every time he mentioned it, she’d switch right back to blaming him for setting the two broads free


    19. The combination of intense pain and withdrawal from crack cocaine lifted simple paranoia to dizzying new heights


    20. Those fears were confirmed when Beth refused to give her cash to buy crack cocaine or allow her to go out in search of it

    21. The only good thing about Sal was that he’d gotten them started in the cocaine business


    22. His voice changed, it was steady and quieter: “Don’t you know that since crack cocaine showed up in the province, Gordy has been something of an anti-drug nut? He is the man responsible for those infernal roadblocks on the coastal highway


    23. And, I’m still not understanding here: you said that Herminia thinks this asshole is trafficking cocaine with Gordon Edward? Where did that come from? I can’t see how any of this has anything to do with him


    24. Then they made her repeat everything he said, and when she got to the part about shipping cocaine, they really went crazy


    25. That’s possible, I suppose, but from the nature of their questions she was left with the impression that they were more interested in this cocaine than about getting their money back


    26. It was all completely insane! I had no idea of what any of that meant until yesterday, when Herminia told me Leon said Gordon Edward’s cocaine comes hidden in log barges


    27. Anyhow, I begged Mike to believe me, that I don’t know anyone named Sal or anything about cocaine trafficking


    28. The truth is that, in large part, what Herminia said is correct: Gordon does traffic cocaine, but I can assure you, he has never engaged in violence and definitely would not have anything to do with the likes of Mike Henderson


    29. Huge profits, sufficient to fill the financial gaps left by Congress, can be earned for the cause by transporting cocaine


    30. If I’m caught I want my lawyer to be able to say I had no idea, or any way to know there was cocaine in those packages

    31. Assured of a secure supply route, Gordon met his American wholesaler, ironed out the details, and soon thereafter cocaine began moving northward in a flow that has continued uninterrupted and undetected to this day


    32. Buried under the fishing nets in the bottom of his boat were twenty-five kilos of ninety-three percent pure cocaine, disguised as packages of surgical bandages


    33. Truman’s instructions were to move the cocaine north, through a series of Contra safe houses, to a contact in Juticalpa, Honduras


    34. When she met Sal and started selling cocaine, Shannon took to the business like a natural


    35. The truth was considerably different: cocaine trafficking turned a quick and enormous profit, and it was real, real easy


    36. Under Reagan, the laws were changed to sentence crack cocaine users to 100 times prison time that powdered cocaine


    37. The law locked up primarily Blacks for longer sentences, though most cocaine users and dealers, both crack and powdered, are white


    38. A compromise settled on eighteen times as long a sentence for crack compared to powdered cocaine


    39. It was, after all, the business she claimed to be the source of her cocaine earnings


    40. To hijack something as sensitive as cocaine from the likes of that man - where it might be traced back to him - would be nothing short of suicidal

    41. Officially, he was an undercover cop whose job it was to supply others with the information necessary for successful arrests in any class of crime, but in the red-light district of San José that translated into cocaine


    42. As it turned out, his assignment to the division came at a most opportune time: Costa Rica had recently succumbed to US pressure insisting that it expand its efforts against cocaine


    43. At the time, cocaine passed through virtually unnoticed, a problem of little consequence for law enforcement, and that was perhaps the main reason he received the assignment


    44. When, for example, a shipment of one hundred-fifty kilos became officially reported as a fifty kilo bust, Edgar was perfectly aware that the excess cocaine made it to the streets, only through the hands of cops, themselves


    45. He knew several other things as well: that the profits of the illegal sales found its way to the highest levels the OIJ and that among the ranks of cocaine dealing cops was his sometimes partner, Officer Enrique Segovia


    46. He had been trying to break into trafficking back home by selling cocaine to some of the same people as Alan, only cheaper


    47. A year of intense effort and investment had brought it to the point of grand opening while complacency had convinced her that Mike could be trusted to deliver the cocaine to his mules at Hotel Playa Tambor


    48. News arrived in the form of an urgent message from Sal: one of her cocaine carriers had been arrested at Logan International Airport with five hundred grams of cocaine taped to his lower back


    49. Sylvia was certain the police knew the man they’d arrested was not, as he maintained, smuggling cocaine for the first time or acting entirely on his own, but he’d been unshakable through hours of rigorous interrogation


    50. Particularly with one of their men arrested and the cops undoubtedly watching anyone even remotely associated, safer methods of transporting both the cocaine and the cash had to be found














































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    Synonyms for "cocaine"

    cocain cocaine drug narcotic stimulant opiate dope crack

    "cocaine" definitions

    a narcotic (alkaloid) extracted from coca leaves; used as a surface anesthetic or taken for pleasure; can become powerfully addictive