Specialists observed an increase in the distribution of the narcotic “Boufa” or “crack,” also known as “cocaine of the poor,” which is the most harmful new drug on the Moroccan market.
Lahcen Baghdadi, the head of the national association for the fight against smoking and drugs, stated in this context that this drug is made and promoted by some immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, and its price ranges between MAD50 and MAD60 per gram.
According to Baghdadi, addiction to this drug is similar to the consumption of “silicone” and plastic, but Boufa is more dangerous to its user because it makes the mind absent and results in total sexual impotence.
The expert explained that addiction to this drug is rampant among Moroccan youth, particularly now that it entered educational institutions. Unfortunately, he continued, the substance is pushed in the name of openness and liberation at times, and living away from life’s issues at other times, which is the youth’s excuse to using it.
In essence, the issue is related to a precise marketing policy whose approach is to lobby for the manufacture, sale, and promotion of this product in order to attract new and more customers, particularly among youth, by diversifying the offer in the form of creating a context away from people’s eyes and repelling all embarrassment, by diversifying supply and price.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) highlighted the rising teen cocaine consumption in the kingdom in a report that was published last month. In Morocco, the usage of cocaine hydrochloride among 15 to 17-year-olds grew over the previous year, going from 0.4% in 2013 to 0.7% in 2017, while the use of “crack” cocaine remained stable at 0.4%.
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