Experts say ‘cocaine sharks’ may be feasting on drugs dumped off Florida

A lemon shark off the coast of Florida. Florida serves as a staging point for large quantities of drugs making their way into the US from South America. Photograph: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images

Move over, Cocaine Bear. Here come cocaine sharks.

In what could be the plotline for the next cheesy marine-themed disaster movie, scientists think crazed and hungry sharks could be feasting on bales of hallucinatory drugs dumped off the Florida coast.