 | CSIS is sounding the alarm about the marked rise in popularity of coke in a recent report on the state of the drug market. "From 2015 to 2017, the consumption rate has doubled from 1% (of the population), or 353,000 consumers, to 2% with 730,000 consumers," says the spy agency. The same situation is observed globally, "in parallel with the increase in cocaine production in Latin America". |  "large quantities of cocaine" are imported into the country. |
 | In 2018, 496 of the 664 organized crime groups tracked were involved in the cocaine trade in Canada, up 5% from 2015. Cocaine rings tend to be controlled by large organized crime groups. Despite rising demand, the price of cocaine in Canada has been stable for 2 decades, at about $ 100 per gram on the street, or between $ 50,000 and $ 65,000 per kg. The market in Canada is estimated at over $2b. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime reported that a historic peak of 1976 tons of cocaine was produced worldwide in 2017. |
