Editing Cocaine (section)

=== Modern usage ===
{{also|Cocaine boom|2023 White House cocaine incident}}
[[File:Cocainaestudiante.jpg|thumb|Student dividing cocaine]]

In many countries, cocaine is a popular [[recreational drug]]. Cocaine use is prevalent across all [[socioeconomic]] strata, including age, demographics, economic, social, political, religious, and livelihood.<ref name="Current">{{Cite book |vauthors = Current JD | chapter = Cocaine |title=Pharmacology for Anesthetists | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Du2bfrO9FwC&pg=PA27 | page = 27 }}</ref>

In the United States, the development of [[crack cocaine|"crack" cocaine]] introduced the substance to a generally poorer inner-city market. The use of the powder form has stayed relatively constant, experiencing a new height of use across the 1980s and 1990s in the U.S.<ref name="Kozel">{{cite book | vauthors = Kozel NJ, Adams EH | title=Cocaine Use in America | publisher=DIANE Publishing | date=July 1996 | isbn=978-0-7881-2968-1}}</ref><ref name="r084">{{cite book | vauthors = Spillane JF | title=Cocaine | publisher=JHU Press | publication-place=Baltimore, MD | date=11 January 2000 | isbn=978-0-8018-6230-4}}</ref> However, from 2006 to 2010 cocaine use in the US declined by roughly half before again rising once again from 2017 onwards.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.brookings.edu/articles/mixed-messages-is-cocaine-consumption-in-the-u-s-going-up-or-down/ |title=Mixed messages: Is cocaine consumption in the U.S. going up or down? |vauthors=Kilmer B |date=2017 |publisher=Brookings |access-date=29 June 2024 |archive-date=29 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240629195048/https://www.brookings.edu/articles/mixed-messages-is-cocaine-consumption-in-the-u-s-going-up-or-down/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In the UK, cocaine use increased significantly between the 1990s and late 2000s, with a similar high consumption in some other European countries, including Spain.<ref name="HOC">{{cite book |  author = Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee | title=The cocaine trade | publisher=The Stationery Office | date=3 March 2010 | isbn=978-0-215-54425-4 | page=22}}</ref>

The estimated U.S. cocaine market exceeded US$70 billion in street value for the year 2005, exceeding revenues by corporations such as [[Starbucks]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.applesanity.com/fetish/blow/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080617113902/https://www.applesanity.com/fetish/blow/ |archive-date=17 June 2008 |title=Apple Sanity – Fetish – Blow: War on Drugs VS. Cocaine |publisher=Applesanity.com |date=17 June 2008 |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.havocscope.com/tag/cocaine/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111114403/https://www.havocscope.com/tag/cocaine/ |archive-date=11 November 2012 |title=Cocaine Market |date=28 April 2008 |publisher=Havocscope.com |access-date=9 March 2010}}</ref> Cocaine's status as a [[club drug]] shows its immense popularity among the "party crowd".<ref name="Current" />

In 1995 the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) and the [[United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute]] (UNICRI) announced in a press release the publication of the results of the largest global study on cocaine use ever undertaken. An American representative in the [[World Health Assembly]] banned the publication of the study, because it seemed to make a case for the positive uses of cocaine. An excerpt of the report strongly conflicted with accepted paradigms, for example, "that occasional cocaine use does not typically lead to severe or even minor physical or social problems." In the sixth meeting of the B committee, the US representative threatened that "If World Health Organization activities relating to drugs failed to reinforce proven drug control approaches, funds for the relevant programs should be curtailed". This led to the decision to discontinue publication. A part of the study was recuperated and published in 2010, including profiles of cocaine use in 20 countries, but are unavailable {{As of|2015|lc=y}}.<ref name=TNI>{{Cite web|title=The WHO Cocaine Project|author=WHO/UNICRI|url=https://www.tni.org/article/who-cocaine-project|publisher=Transnational Institute|date=4 February 2010|access-date=8 June 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120809073614/https://www.tni.org/article/who-cocaine-project|archive-date=9 August 2012}}</ref>

In October 2010 it was reported that the use of cocaine in Australia has doubled since monitoring began in 2003.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Cocaine use doubles in a decade |url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/cocaine-use-doubles-in-a-decade-20101015-16mli.html |work=Sydney Morning Herald |date=15 October 2010 |access-date=19 October 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018051009/https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/cocaine-use-doubles-in-a-decade-20101015-16mli.html |archive-date=18 October 2010 }}</ref>