This is how much cocaine has been seized in the GTA in 2016
On July 7, The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced that they had seized just shy of 20 kilograms of cocaine at Pearson airport.
The cocaine, arriving on a flight from Port of Spain, Trinidad, had been hidden in two large boxes in some 17 brick-shaped packages beneath “an abundance of hot peppers.”
And let’s face it, cocaine is still a hot commodity in Toronto. So much so that the CBSA has already seized over 678 kilograms of suspected cocaine in the GTA in 2016 alone.
According to a 2014 article from Canada.com, Canadians – on average – pay about $100 per gram of cocaine. While a 2009 RCMP illicit drug price list puts it between $80-$110 per gram
So let’s call it a hundred (we didn’t hit the streets ourselves to find out) and that’s a cool $67,800,000 worth of cocaine seized this year. Of course, no one is selling that much coke entirely in grams, so that overall price is easily cut in half or a third – though obviously moved much faster too.
Either way, that’s a decent haul. And that’s just what’s been seized in 2016. As for what’s been snorted, that’s anyone’s guess. But we’re putting our money on it being a lot more than three kilograms a day across the GTA…