Or maybe Susan Paterson was a direct 205 player in the booming cocaine market.

The United States is the major cocaine market.

If three-quarters of them stopped using drugs, he estimates, crime would drop substantially and half the cocaine market would dry up.

In 1989, his Medellín cartel controlled 80% of the global cocaine market.

The number of heroin users has risen, they say, but the increase does not nearly match the decline in the cocaine market.

Cocaine refiners would offer a high enough price to get back the land and labor needed to meet the needs of the cocaine market.

This, they said, would shrink the cocaine market, with its associated crime and violence, by one-third over 15 years.

The peculiar nature of the cocaine market, they assert, makes it almost impossible to win the war on the supply side.

But he added, "I take it for granted that if the cocaine market is saturated, crack will start coming in."

With the cocaine market in chaos, the middlemen stopped buying raw leaves and the price plunged to $12 per 100 pounds.