Cocaine prices up 30 to 45 percent after drug boat attacks

President Donald Trump’s military strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean Sea have reduced supply and raised drug dealers’ prices, Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Terry Cole told cbs News on November 19. Cartels are paying more for vessels and manpower and are losing cargoes. President Trump is hoping to weaken cartels and foreign adversaries and to reduce the number of Americans who become addicted or die due to drugs. But America’s self-inflicted drug epidemic, which now claims roughly 100,000 lives each year, will continue. Cartels will find new ways to supply what so many Americans so tragically demand.