What are the popular drugs used in New Jersey?

New Jersey with major shipping ports and an international airport is one of the best places for the drug smugglers to transport drugs. This has posed a big challenge to the law enforcement entities of the state to bring the illicit drug operations under control. It was earlier thought that it is majorly the Dominican and Colombian drug traffickers smuggling the popular drugs cocaine and heroin into the state. However, latest intelligent probes have revealed that the Mexican drug organizations also have joined hands now in trafficking illicit drugs into the state. The Mexican drug traffickers are smuggling these drugs from the West Coast into the states of New Jersey and New York. A widespread use of crack cocaine and heroin has been reported from the urban areas like Elizabeth, Camden, Newark and Trenton. The use of these drugs is massive in and around the nightclub areas throughout New Jersey. These mainly include the Atlantic City casino areas.

Cocaine is smuggled into New Jersey by shipment, tractor trailers, private vehicles and commercial flights. Sometimes, courier packages have also been found containing these narcotics. The Dominican and Colombian drug organizations supply these to the ethnic groups living in New Jersey, like African-Americans, Puerto Rican and Caucasians, which are in turn then distributed on the streets. An interesting observation has revealed that since the terrorist attacks of September 11 in New York City, there has been an increase in the availability of heroin in New Jersey. Narcotic officers have discovered huge amounts of heroin being smuggled into New Jersey before distributing them in New York. Narcotics task force commanders have also recorded several heroin related deaths in the state. Intelligence sources believe that these narcotics are shipped to port Perth Amboy in New Jersey, in cargo containers.

Methamphetamine is another drug that is available in New Jersey, though it is not that popular a drug in New Jersey. Recently a DEA fugitive was arrested by the Jordanian authorities for conspiring to distribute pseudoephedrine, a chemical for manufacturing methamphetamine, in New Jersey. Club drugs are very popular in New Jersey and the drugs like MDMA e.g. Ecstasy are used on a large scale mostly in the south eastern region of the state. The massive popularity of these drugs has brought down their prices making them all the easier to acquire. These drugs are mainly sourced in bulk from New York and Philadelphia and have a high demand in nightclubs and rave parties. MDMA is also sourced from Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands. Marijuana and Hydroponic Marijuana are also popular in New Jersey, especially amongst the new generation. These are mainly smuggled in from Canada.