Forcing them to undergo treatment, he said, could cut cocaine sales by as much as 40 percent.

Mr. Davis's lawyers contend that the police had wanted to kill their client to suppress evidence of their involvement in cocaine sales.

Once JW and Abdulkarim have the cocaine sales going they want to expand.

One arrested officer, Michael Walsh, 33, is said to have regularly spoken to other officers about arranging cocaine sales for him.

For example, say a drug dealer wants to disguise $10,000 in monthly profits from cocaine sales.

The assassination attempt was said to have been financed from cocaine sales.

Only dramatic interventions against supply could conceivably reduce consumption enough to reduce total income from cocaine sales.

Efforts to restrict cocaine sales haven't worked.

A New Orleans ordinance banned cocaine sales as well but left an ill-defined exception for therapeutic uses.

The relocation may account for the drop in cocaine sales from 9 percent of Colombia's gross national product in 1982 to 1.5 percent last year.