3 decades after Pablo Escobar's death, drugs ravage Medellin

A woman inhales glue in a street of downtown Medellin, Colombia, on March 19, 2022. - Three decades after Pablo Escobar's shot body was left on a Medellin rooftop, drug trafficking continues and, at present, markets for flavored cocaine, local crack, pharmaceutical drugs and ketamine-based hallucinogens are rife in his hometown. (AFP photo)

MEDELLíN, Colombia: Three decades after cartel boss Pablo Escobar was shot dead by police on a rooftop in Medellin, the very city he had sought to uplift with drug money is being ravaged by it.

Junkies frequent hundreds of sales points dotted around Colombia's second city, which has become the epicenter of the domestic drug trade.