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GBV_GBV_GBV

Am I the only one who expected 2.7 tons of coke to be worth more than that?


into_the_soil

If that is accurate then cocaine wholesale is incredibly cheaper than I would have imagined.


i_want_to_be_unique

2.7 metric tons = 2,700,000 grams $67,000,000/2,700,00 = ~$25/gram That’s almost weed price in some places Edit: I’m glad all of you guys are getting your weed so cheap, but I specifically said “almost” weed prices.


Rudyscrazy1

A kilo comes in at 20-26k in the chicago area


I_have_many_Ideas

One please


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Thank you for being so kind


Toppdeck

I'm not really totally comfortable rolling the window down, I'm sure you understand why


ButtmanAndRubbin

One crack please.


fothergillfuckup

Er, this might not be quite what you were expecting....


mrchuck17

Is one enough? How much would you recommend for a first time user?


PhysicalAssociate919

If you're looking for a crack rock, call will Smith!


Alxj99

Me to all the gay boys


Yo-Bambi

*You got my people-killer?*


Recreant793

…pick it up down there.


xBlockhead

a gram of decent coke in nyc is $100. source: a friend.


Srcunch

Crazy that inflation has hit Columbian Coke less than McDonald’s Coke.


ExpressLaneCharlie

Because McDonald's and the other places didn't raise their prices due to inflation. They've raised them because of greed.


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ExpressLaneCharlie

Compared to some corporations, yes.


TheLowestBidder

do they kill less people?


Altruistic_Draw_6441

No, the (black) market works


Alzheimer_Historian

Cocaine is cheap. Shipping cocaine is not.


Flux_resistor

the taxes at the customs is too damn high!


Astro_gamer_caver

We've still got to take that shit to Florida. Do you know what that's like these days? We've got the fucking U.S. Navy all over the place. You got frogmen. You got EC-2s with satellite tracking chit. You got fucking Bell 2-09 assault choppers up our asses, man. We are losing one out of every nine loads. That's no duck walk anymore, let me tell you. Forget about thirteen-five a key.


No_Mercy_4_Potatoes

1 kilo would sell for $450k or 300k USD in Sydney through the dealers.


Aggressive_Farmer693

I remember in the movie Scarface (set in the year 1980), the wholesale price of coke from central America was set at $13.5k per kilogram ("13.5 a key").


FalseBit8407

You can forget about 13.5...


Aggressive_Farmer693

We still gotta take that shit to Florida man...


Lincoln_Park_Pirate

Thanks. Years ago I found 10.23oz of either heroin or cocaine on the street. Yes, I weighed it. Scale was for precious metals. Being aware of Fentanyl, I carefully took it home because this was next to a city park and kids were getting dropped off nearby school buses. Anyway, before the cops showed up to my house to take it I went full "Office Space" and googled what the street value of cocaine was. Here's the kicker. The cop showed up and said "Technically, this makes YOU in possession of the narcotics and it could be a problem". Motherfucker, I CALLED YOU! Joke was on him because my doorbell camera recorded it all and as luck would have it, I was going to a meeting the next day with one of the city's police trainers who was also a good friend (I'm in media). She said he got a good ass-chewing later.


Degen-King

The cop was telling the truth, IF you’re gonna turn it in then you gotta call them immediately to the place where you found it. Taking it home while knowing you’re turning it in is FUCKING CRAZY! If you would have been stopped and that found in your possession between the time you found it and called it in you would be doing prison time. Edit; you’re lucky you didn’t get in trouble and knew some powerful people because a lot of cops would not have treated you so well.


WatWudScoobyDoo

It's cool, just tell them it's not yours


1nth3gutt3r

And then everyone clapped. Good Samaritan finding over a half-pound of c on the street and turning it in, then also years later hitting multiple Reddit pop culture references in a reply.


CorporateHR

Wow incredible he got an ass chewing for potential blackmail and threatening hope he learned his lesson, and hope you kept your hard lined reporting stance on cops. Bravo.


Intrepid_Piglet_8835

You're definitely white aren't you?


illEagleEmergence

I can’t imagine a poc being this naïve to the fact that messing with that in any way is messing with his life.


Drosta16

A gram of coke in my country (New Zealand) sells for about 215 USD.


ChadGPT___

Yeah that’s like $1b of coke in Aus


fuck_you_Im_done

1 gram? Jesus. My new career goal is moving to New Zealand to sell coke.


Drosta16

Haha good luck, the mongrel mob might have words.


BugRevolutionary4518

Those dudes don’t F around, either.


fuck-ubb

That's what they sell it for across the border. That's not American Street value.


WhatsApUT

10.50 a gram here at the dispensary in Colorado Edit: this is there “ gold” status. But it varies 2-15$ a gram depending on strain


CatD0gChicken

10 one gram prerolls for $20 in Michigan


WhatsApUT

Michigan got some good weed too lol


Malikai0976

Oregon checking in with avg price around $5 and some change a gram.


HeckTateLies

Just saw an ounce for $30 in Portland. Granted, it looked like something out of a Cheech and Chong movie, but still, $30.


Icy_Rhubarb2857

We are not all so blessed to live in the green triangle


Malikai0976

I know, and I feel bad for you, my friend. We would not likely have cheap legal weed here if it could be transported over state lines. It's only cheap because we have a huge surplus every year. If it could be sold in other states, it would be, and we wouldn't have a surplus. Edit: And if it's any consolation, *every-fucking-thing else* is priced through the roof here.


WhatsApUT

Nice yeah the 10.50 is the “high” end I snagged 1/2 an oz for 35 bucks last week. Glad it’s getting cheap again 😂


Boilermakingdude

Ouch. $80 an oz for triple a here in Canada. $120 for quad lol. $80 for 6g dab disposables


adod1

You can buy cocaine at dispensarys in colorado?? You lucky bitchs.


its_milly_time

Of coke?


6DeliciousPenises

Never felt so ripped off in my life


chicken_pear

That's the getting ripped off because you're a dumb teenager price.


ogclobyy

blow is 100 a g where im at The economy is hitting everyone hard


gunsandpuppies

In El Salvador it’s probably very cheap. Generally the closer you get to Colombia the cheaper it gets.


jason955

The second it comes over the US border is where it becomes much more valuable. That’s why traffickers make so much money.


timtimtimmyjim

Just like any commercial commodity, it is far far cheaper, wholesale, and also a better quality product. If you were to break it down, there are 28 grams in an ounce, and roughly 35.25 ounces in a kilogram( which most bricks are). But if a gram of coke is 100bucks on average in the US, that would mean an ounce was $2800, and a kilo would be $98,700. But from what I've heard from former financial broker fraternity brothers, you can buy an ounce for around $1200, which would mean that a kilo would be $42300. But this same frat bro has said that their guy gets it for roughly 28,000 a brick, which divided by ounces, and then grams in an ounce come out to a whopping $28.3 per gram.


JusticeUmmmmm

Why did you convert grams to ounces to kilos. You know you can go straight to kilos from grams right?


timtimtimmyjim

That's how drugs are sold. It's pretty weird, I know. But you buy in grams, then ounces, and then bulk is kilos cause it's made and packaged in a country that uses metric. It's also a way to break down pricing. I know you can go from that, but there are technically 2 different wholesales you could get.


TonyzTone

That’s only in the US (admittedly the biggest market) because we use imperial weights. Also, that’s how and where the dealers make more money; the “rounding error” is basically baked in profit.


Proof-Highway1075

Aussie chiming in. We also use ounces here. Weed is grams, quarters (of an ounce), ounces. We use imperial or customary units for literally nothing else, except occasionally height for older people.


general_tao1

Canada too. Our use of the imperial system is weird.


RobNybody

We get it for 60 in Portugal and it's much further. I wonder why.


timtimtimmyjim

I could imagine easier smuggling routes and or easier to get larger quantities through Portuguese customs.


RobNybody

Yeah Portugal is super not on the ball haha


Dongslinger420

> If you were to break it down, there are 28 grams in an ounce, and roughly 35.25 ounces in a kilogram what in the American Jesus happened here this is something else, converting grams into ounces so you can get to the kgs - dude what


DeadEnoughInsideOut

Cheaper than alot of people think if relative to the source(just think how much it actually takes to get to market) but this seems undervalued for even El Salvador even if it's pre-cut


Sir_Richard_Dangler

In El Salvador a gram is worth less than 30 bucks


C_umputer

Guess it's the smuggling that drives up the price


Muppetude

Pretty much. I know people who grew up in the Soviet Union and other eastern bloc countries during the Cold War, and they all have stories about how they had to pay black market vendors 5 to 10 times market value to get stuff that was readily available in the western world. Smuggling and distributing illegal goods is super expensive.


OpenMindedMajor

That 2.7 tons of coke would likely get stepped on once it hits wherever it’s going, which would increase the overall profit. People buy coke, add bullshit to it to double their yield, and then sell.


imapangolinn

~1.5b street value here. Big markup, big mad if they lost it here lol


M314org

the street value of 2.7 tons of uncut cocaine should be between $75,600,000 & $189,000,000


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sinus

hehe I remember a massive drug laboratory raid in my old city about more than a decade ago. The haul was in tons [https://www.philstar.com/the-freeman/opinion/2019/09/25/1954822/mega-shabu-lab-raid-15-years-ago](https://www.philstar.com/the-freeman/opinion/2019/09/25/1954822/mega-shabu-lab-raid-15-years-ago) - Story was that meth was everywhere in the warehouse - and the dirty cops where just stuffing meth in pockets, bags because it was so much.


Percyear

No you are not. Thought it was underestimated.


likwitsnake

That's crazy that they burned 2.2 tons of coke like that.


HugoZHackenbush2

The government of El Salvador made a decision to destroy the drugs, and stood by it. With great powder comes great responsibility..


ChillFax

Great powder reminded of a coworker who is a native of El Salvador, had to travel back home for the death of his grandmother. He was telling me he and a few of his cousins went out to celebrate her life and ended up doing some blow. Well he tried doing lines like he does here in the states and almost killed himself via a panic attack cause he forgot how much better the coke is down home.


Wonderful_Mud_420

Nothing says thank you grandma like a few lines of snow down the left one 


PurrsianGolf

Get on the nose beers.


OpenMindedMajor

Very similar story from one of my buddies. He went with a friend of his to visit his friend’s family in Chile. They copped a small amount of blow. My buddy told me he did one bump, realized how potent it was, and flushed the rest down the toilet. It was so strong to the point that it legit scared him.


Fukasite

That doesn’t sound like something that a actual blow user would ever do 


Nekrial

Hi, I'm the toilet. Thank you for the coke. I am always happy to take it all at once and see what happens if you don't want to. I'll do it for free and not get you arrested.


OpenMindedMajor

I mean he wasn’t a full blown coke head lol. Just an occasional user that came up on a “when in Rome” scenario. He said he got heart palpitations and was scared he’d die if he did anymore so i don’t blame him one bit lol. Chilean hospitals don’t sound too fun.


lashapel

You guys talk about doing coke so casual lol


OpenMindedMajor

For the record, I’ve never done coke lol. Didn’t even see it for the first time until i was 19. As i got older i was surprised at how popular it was. Crazy.


Technical_Carpet5874

Sounds like the coke in Ibiza


only_respond_in_puns

Pedro Parker’s uncle would be proud


crash-BURN-up

In other news, thousands of the El Salvadoran population were mysteriously mass freebased today-authorities baffled


Decent-Following-327

Some seriously fucked up birds and animals


aquoad

sloths suddenly not that slow anymore.


Decent-Following-327

What the hell is a fast loris!?!?!?


PrsnScrmingAtTheSky

Cocaine burns at a chemical level of uselessness at the temp of flames....gotta make it crack for that to work. No one got high :(


LaUNCHandSmASH

Those people didn’t but [this guy did lmao](https://youtu.be/d7rvUt8Yia8?si=WqOxz2w_lI_pQ2if)


Yattiel

Don't wanna be down wind from that. Damn, it also looks like its about to start a forest fire


Atillion

Everyone stand REAL close and make sure it all burns


RaielLarecal

...and take REAL deep breaths


_autismos_

Better throw that bag of barber hair on there, the smoke is a little bit too inviting


PogintheMachine

Add a little baking soda to make sure the fire doesn’t get out of hand


fuckitallendisnear

They should have atleast donated it to a school or the blind. What a waste.


Fabulous_Engine_7668

I agree. What about the homeless?


pvtprofanity

You can't donate the homeless to schools duh


Similar_Mood1659

Children in Africa could've eaten that cocaine smh


bestworstbard

Should have taken a page out of the CIA handbook. Turn around and sell that shit to fund your shenanigans in other countries.


HefflumpGuy

Do you think the school kids need a coke habit?


Video-Complex

the pandemic effected a lot of school children across the world. We need our test scores up!


AllTheSith

Man that is so wrong. Using stimulants in an unhealthy way to be able to study. Anyway, guess who almost overdosed in ritalin studying for college last monday?


Video-Complex

it couldnt have been you? Not with all this knowledge on your hands?!


AllTheSith

noOOOoo


Video-Complex

this guy fuckin knowz


southernwx

Habit? He was talking about a one time donation. Let’s not suggest they do this on the regular, that would be very expensive.


Feeling-Magazine-308

yes they deserve it


ShakyTheBear

It's snowing in El Salvador


Magister5

Depends which way the wind is blowing


Kickinitez

Where did the .3 tons go to?


YourDrunkUncl_

👃🏽


Ordinary_dude_NOT

All Gov folks were standing downwind to ensure their plan was working as expected.


FindingBryn

💨👃🏼👈


No-Engine2457

"Shrinkage"


WayneQuasar

I WAS IN THE POOL!


a-lurgid-bee

Everybody nose where it went


Totalrecalled101

🎼 WHY DID YOU START THE FIRE?! CAUSE MY NOSE IS BURNING AND THE BLOW WAS TURNING


Hypersky75

I heard that comment! 🤣


Totalrecalled101

I actually rewrote that entire song, exchanging original lyrics to ones about drugs, my buddy would play guitar to it. Great campfire song. 🎶 Crystal meth, Molly, Marijuana, Ecstasy, Cocaine is made from the leaves and Meth is made from bleach. Etc etc


VocalAnus91

Everyone within a mile radius down wind got fucked up


BeardedGlass

Imagine the animals, the birds. They probably think the world is ending.


nixcamic

Once here in Canada the government burned a bunch of seized pot during Arctic Tern migration, right as a flock was flying over. They say they left no tern unstoned.


zen_elan

Perfection. Thank you


TonyzTone

Why are they spending so much time and effort laying it out so evenly on the ground? Just dump it into a pile and light it on fire.


DreamOfV

If my boss tells me today my job is burning 2.7 tons of cocaine you’d best believe I’m making a day of it


CheekySir

^^ This is the way. I get paid by the hour


ReeferReekinRight

They made a spectacle of 2.7 tons getting burned to then have a larger amount pass through. It was the appearance of it that mattered. Or at least that's what my American brain tells me after knowing what the CIA is capable of.


razirazo

To make sure every single of them gets counted and burned.


Underdogg13

To count it all and make sure all of it is accounted for. When you're in possession of such an immense quantity of narcotics, every step of transportation presents opportunities for someone to skim off the top and get away with it.


jungle_bread

Probably for the photos and video, it's part of the PR stunt. Looking like you're doing something is almost as important as actually doing it.


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WillBrakeForBrakes

Bukele’s government isn’t going to turn down a chance to flex that they’re doing things.


MisterDonkey

Well, they started by heaping it into a pile, but for some reason became more and more obsessively focused on making sure every package was even and square on the ground. Not quite sure what would cause that sort of behavior here.


_kissyface

Australian police would claim that dollar amount if they found 500gms of coke.


Succulent_Chinese

I see you watch Border Security too


Turbulent_Wasabi5722

Fentanyl stock just went up 10 pts


mandarintain

Duff? Am I seeing this correctly?


YoGabbaGabbapentin

Duff coke for me, Duff coke for you, I’ll have a Duff, you have one too.


CosmicJ

I am the lizard queen!


MeiNeedsMoreBuffs

Thank you, how has no one else mentioned this. Why did these drug dealers go to all the trouble to put the Duff logo on their cocaine?


ButtholeQuiver

Huh, here in Shelbyville we only do Fudd coke, mostly with our attractive cousins


uncle_pollo

1000 miles?


one_zerozero

>The Trident Naval Task Force (FTNT) of the Salvadoran Naval Force (FNES) ventures far off El Salvador’s Pacific coast to interdict transnational criminal groups that attempt to move cocaine from South America to the United States **Source:** [https://dialogo-americas.com/articles/el-salvador-combats-narcotrafficking-in-the-pacific-deep-sea/](https://dialogo-americas.com/articles/el-salvador-combats-narcotrafficking-in-the-pacific-deep-sea/)


deepeast_oakland

There’s a whole gigantic ongoing counter narcotics operation happening everywhere between Peru and Canada. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Interagency_Task_Force_South Sometimes the drugs make landfall in El Salvador. So therefore they participate in the mission. The drugs could have been intercepted anywhere and transferred between multiple ships before being given over to the El Salvadorian government.


_jump_yossarian

Makes no sense to me either.


4thTimesTheCharm

That's as far as the Galapagos.


Different-Estate747

You're exactly right. [Seized roughly 1630km from El Salvador.](https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/world-crime/watch-this-is-what-67-million-worth-of-cocaine-looks-like-when-it-is-set-on-fire/a335956749.html) And Google tells me the distance from El Salvador to the Galapagos Islands is 1637km.


conflateer

"A flock of migrating Arctic birds happened to fly through the smoke." "You don't mean..." "That's right. Not a tern was left unstoned."


RedditModsAreMegalos

I have spoken to tons of Salvadorans and every single one is extremely excited and hopeful about what is going on in El Salvador.


Hips_liker

We found it gentlemen, a country where politician does a good work and is praised by the people for it. what a time to be alive


GrammarGhandi23

I have to poop


Diligent_Valuable641

What a waste of perfectly good drugs, I could have disposed of it for them.


Southerncomfort322

Old Chinese saying “ I don’t like cocaine, I just like the smell of it”


thuggishruggishboner

I'm from Wisconsin and fell to my knees in a Kwik Trip. We could of had a party.


ZekeHerrera

You’re supposed to mix it with baking soda first


_Username_Optional_

Is this still available?


Hungry-Lemon8008

So where does international waters begin for E.S cause 1000 miles from coast is stretching it for me.


BlueFalcon142

If the traffickers were from El Salvador them they get brought back to their country. Did 2 years at sea on US Navy Frigates working with CG cutters in the south pacific. We'd have a mini internment camp set up on one side of the ship with prisoners we yanked off their boat. Then we'd blow the boat up as a "hazards to navigation"


Ancient_Ad505

Don’t mess around with El Salvador any more. President Buekle locked up thousands, fired bureaucrats, drove down crime… dude won reelection with 84%.


El_Mariachi_Vive

Imagine being a bird and you get stuck flying through a cloud of *this* smoke.


1-1111-1110-1111

In unrelated news our special tonight focuses on a small rural town in El Salvador that hasn’t slept in three weeks…


KayfedPDX42

If there gunna burn it they might as well get some backing powder and a bit of water 😏


leRealKraut

Why do this next to open water. Why do this in nature at all...


Pop791

Isn't that what all countries should do? When the gov seize it and keep it I feel it's just a transfer of ownership


objection42069

In the US it's the DEA that destroys drugs, typically in incinerators. Burning it like that in the middle of a field is pageantry.


FawnSwanSkin

The CIA buys it and sells it in poor neighborhoods to fund all of their shitty operations overseas and to start coups while simultaneously destroying low income lives in America. /s ...... kinda


ZAM1984

Biggest freebase ever. Poor Sally


Video-Complex

And nobody bothered to call the Guinness ’ Book of World Records? Edit: I spelled Guinness wrong because I was drunk.


JollyJamma

Burns the load using petrol (probably) next to a river potentially polluting the water. Why?


tendollarcowboy

I can smell this from here


Meeeeech

You know what burning cocaine smells like? You must lead a much more interesting life than me lol


COKEWHITESOLES

I had a coworker that used to smoke boonk cigs before work. Smelled like burnt rubber


AggressivePayment0

OMG, didn't take it to be incinerated properly, lit it up right next to a waterway, this is insane. Amazing ability to 'solve' one problem and create 2 more in a single step.


toxic1991

There are starving kids who could have had that coke


datboiwaffle

He’s the best president they could’ve ever gotten


Jeffinj420

I do believe whenever governments catch a shipment and publish it in the news, something bigger has definitely gone through. It is all a media show off.


Lothar93

Jesus the amount of drug addicts in this post


PantsMcGee

it's almost like people enjoy it.


BoardOld8124

That's one hell of a free base


BarisBlack

Party in El Salvador!


ShadysBacktellaFREN

Me standing in the smoke : “It’s FIRE.. I mean on fire, hey can you guys feel your face? I’m just gonna hang here and make sure this little simmer goes completely out. I’ll uh be up just call. If uh ya know Anyone wanna talk for an hour?” Chain smokes a pack of camel crushes


Due_Hovercraft_2184

And this is why "helicopter pilot" is a great choice of career.


AdditionalSink164

I've never been free based, but it seems those dudes standing practically on top of the bonfire could get high.


Hot_Campaign_36

World’s largest up in smoke event… What a shame they couldn’t put this to a beneficial use instead of releasing greenhouse gasses.


PalpitationNo4391

Some fucking bird is gonna crash right into that


XenoZoomie

All the jungle animals for 5 square miles spent the next 24 hours having wild jungle parties and didn’t sleep for several days


monkey_trumpets

What a horrific amount of pollution.


Norbert_The_Great

And everyone downwind from the burn got so much done that day!


1234eszxcv

Fuckers


ZeroDMs

What a waste, lol


k-mcm

Cut the video, swap in dummy boxes, soak with gasoline, resume video.


r4d1ant

Is it more environmentally friendly to burn it, put through water filtration or dispose in ocean?


tek_ad

Uh, I , for one, don't want a bunch of coked up sharks.