1.   One evening Alicia overdoses on what turns out to be pharmaceutically pure cocaine, not the diluted stuff the group is accustomed to sniffing by the bowlful.

2.   Colombia serves as the major sight for refining the drug into pure cocaine for shipment to U.S. and European markets.

3.   It is cheaper and easier to ship pure cocaine directly to market than it is to transport more bulky cocaine paste to an intermediary, analysts say.

4.   The powder turned out to be pure cocaine.

5.   They described it as the biggest seizure of pure cocaine ever in Colombia.

6.   There, the paste is refined into pure cocaine, which is packed and smuggled out of Colombia.

7.   Colombian authorities seized three tons of extremely pure cocaine from the powerful Cali cartel on Thursday, anti-narcotics police said.

8.   Officials said the hashish had been transported from Morocco while the highly pure cocaine was from South America.