Don't you worry about Oz, Jerry ^^^ it's breaking bad every whichaway.
Supply
and consumption of meth. Sure the prices are high, but very affordable still - obviously >>
The bikies, mostly, still cook big.
I think the precursors are mostly imported illegally these days.
(previously they hijacked, or fraudulently bought, a lot of legit stuff)
Also big Meth
imports - about 5 tonnes seized in 2017/18. (includes precursors ??)
The
total weight of ATS** seized nationally
increased by 583% over the last decade,
to
11,205 kilograms in 2017–18, (11 tonnes)
(total of imports and locally produced)
**ATS - Amphet Type Stimulants
approx, Meth 80% E 20% , in Oz
Heaps of real E imported, but also -
A lot of the bikie Meth (and other home cooked) gets pressed into pills and sold by the big distribution orgs as E.
And, a lot of E /MDA powder is imported and then pressed here, often cut with Meth.
That ^^ has made some of the "drug lords" extremely very super rich - one of the specific reasons for the big gangland wars/assassinations in Melbourne a decade or so ago.
Huge profits if you have good supply of fake, and can control the profitable turf patches. No competition from the real stuff.
Big busts are pretty common. One tonne or more imports.
eg, My kayak is stashed on a secret little bushy beach in Sydney Harbour - paddlocked to the side fence of the Border Force maritime base next door. (Customs/"Coast guard")
Out front there are two yachts both busted in the past few months for approx 1 ton each of Meth.
see photo below
3/5% of imports are busted they reckon nowadays - everybody laughed too much at the old 10% gag.
The Calabrians are big players in all kinds of dope here (been entrenched for a hundred years)
They do everything BIG.
Before, 25 - 50 hectare pot farms, grown as expertly as Italians grow everything.
Since the '70's, and especially now - they are hooked in big time with the whole international Calabrian org. - which has well overtaken the Sicilians these day i believe, tonnes of everything criss-crossing the globe.
This bust was Calabrian, 2005 >>
Busts like this, which blow the average annual figure out of normal proportion, are an indication of the quantity that actually does come thru every year >>
WHAT is believed to have been the world's biggest ecstasy bust - involving 15 million pills - has been made public by Australian authorities.
Federal Police today busted the Australian arm of an global drug gang which smuggled massive amounts of ecstasy into Melbourne.
They have seized 5.6 tonnes of ecstasy pills and large amounts of cocaine during a three-year operation.
Almost 20 million ecstasy tablets were seized during the exhaustive probe, which involved hundreds of AFP agents.
The bust is a world record amount for ecstasy. (2009)
2x 1 tonne load yachts outside Border Force base
training, they usually bust at sea like this
