This is good, right? Fewer single-use narco-submarines being discarded?
this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2025
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Falling price of cocaine forces drug traffickers to reuse narco-submarines, say Spanish police
(www.theguardian.com)
Unlike Coca-cola, these traffickers reuse their containers
They are eco-conscious drug traffickers
If you find one on the beach you can return it for the deposit.
What's that Mr chainsaw man? Get in the car and we're going for a ride? Whoopsie, guess finding that container wasn't as lucky as I thought.
They had me at cheaper cocaine.
That's just crack.
Falling price of cocaine more often than not means you're getting it stepped on a lot more. You're not getting high quality for cheap.
Enshitification came for the narcotics industry ages ago.
Its wild that you can od on pure coke for less than the cost of 64gb of ram
A ball of 90% pure (tested myself) round me is about 200USD. A couple bumps gets me gakked for at least an hour. I could OD easily for about 100USD… that’s like 8GB of DDR4 or some shit hahaha
Reality is often stranger than fiction. Lmfao appreciate your input
economy is so bad, even cartels are forced to save
You joke, but nothing screams "bad days ahead for the American finance/real estate/tech sectors" like a sharp contraction in demand for nose candy
But with massive cocaine production leading to market saturation –
This seems to be a supply-side effect. Also, the article is about the market in europe.
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
Were they so wealthy they were just buying brand new narco-submarines every shipment? 🤔
IIRC there is a whole industry that builds them custom, often out of fiberglass
I was just making a joke, but I suppose it doesn't even need to be manned. Just big enough to pack cocaine in and remote pilot or self-guide to a destinstion like a torpedo. And that could be cheap.
It's also probably easier to just make a new one rather than send it back empty and risk your route being compromised or something. Twice the trips is twice the chance that something gets noticed.
I had only heard of the subs going to the US until now.
It's kinda crazy they're crossing the Atlantic in those things, even crazier they're doing round trips