Sentence examples for cocaine used from inspiring English sources
American and Colombian law enforcement officials said Mr. Rodríguez Orejuela, 65, with his brother, Miguel, ran a multibillion-dollar cocaine trafficking ring based in Cali that at one time transported most of the cocaine used in the United States.
Cocaine used to be America's problem, to the point that the United States started a major campaign against sellers and consumers of crack cocaine in the inner cities, drug traffickers, and suppliers in the Andes.
The 180 service members based here conduct about 100 flights a month over the Pacific looking for drug boats from Colombia, the source of about 90percentt of the cocaine used in the United States.
Until last year, when President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act, penalties for possessing or selling crack cocaine, used heavily by minorities, were a hundred times more severe than those for powder cocaine, a form of the drug often consumed by prosperous white people.
Galicians have traditionally supplemented their staple fishing industry with contraband; nearly half the cocaine used in Europe is thought to cross its smuggler-friendly coastline.If Mr Schneider is correct, the shadow economy in wealthy countries has grown three times as fast as the official one since the 1960s.
The majority comes to America, constituting about 90% of the cocaine used in the States, according to PBS.But times are changing.
Cocaine use has more than trebled since 1996.
The first trial was dominated by allegations of cocaine use.
But it's also a side-effect of cocaine use.
TRACK & FIELD International Amateur Athletic Federation IAAF--Suspended high jumper Javier Sotomayor until July 31 , 2001 for cocaine use.
