MANILA, Philippines – The selling of adulterated cocaine now proliferates in the streets of Metro Manila, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) disclosed today.
PDEA director general Dionisio Santiago said this is expected to linger until authorities are able to salvage the remnants of the two tons of high-grade cocaine that was dumped off the coast of Samar province by the crew of the Chines fishing vessel King Yue 1 in December 2009.
Earlier, PDEA already came out with warnings that the cocaine being sold in sachets worth P500 in Metro Manila are mostly made up of baking powder after a series of quantitative ad qualitative examination made on the pieces of drug evidence confiscated from suspects.
"This amplifies the problem of drug law enforcers because the high-grade cocaine that was dumped is now being sold in small sachets. The cocaine bricks were 73.59 percent pure while those in sachets contain only 4.6 percent cocaine and the rest are mere extenders," Santiago said.
"We are working overtime to suppress the spread of the Samar Cocaine into the streets," he added. - By Dennis Carcamo
