Illicit drugs valued at 0.9% of entire world GDP: ...
29-June-2005, China, Xinhua
Global illicit drugs valued at theretail level in 2003 was estimated to reach 0.9 percent of the world gross domestic product (GDP), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said here Wednesday.
The value of the global illicit ...
Drug war in Colombia: Is there any progress?
21-June-2005, Colombia, Houston Chronicle
As proof that the U.S.-backed drug war in South America is paying off, the Bush administration says cocaine production has plummeted by nearly 30 percent over the past three years.
But some American counternarcotics officials and drug-trade ...
G8 to step up drugs fight in Afghanistan
17-June-2005, Afghanistan, Hindustan Times
The world's eight major industrialized countries have agreed to step up funding to fight the drugs trade in Afghanistan, British Home Secretary Charles Clarke said, acknowledging that present efforts were heavily inadequate.
"Everyone agreed that ...
If you want to cut gun crime, first you have to ...
12-June-2005, United Kingdom, Times Online
Stories of the latest war on gun crime appeared last week flanked by advertisements for a film called Mr & Mrs Smith. A glamorous couple were depicted with handguns as sexually explicit fashion items. Gun laws are like gun movies. They are erotic ...
Reefer madness: Is sanity breaking out?
07-June-2005, United States, Salon.com
Despite the Supreme Court's ruling against medical marijuana and a scary proposed snitch law, America may finally be awakening from its decades-long stupor about recreational drugs.
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'War on drugs' not meant to be won
04-June-2005, United States, Norwich Bulletin
With remarks to a civic group in Enfield recently, Superior Court Judge Howard Scheinblum engaged in what is seldom forgiven in Connecticut's public life: candor.
The judge asserted what can neither be denied nor acknowledged -- that public ...
A Letter to My Friend Who Supports the Drug War
03-June-2005, United States, lewrockwell.com
My friend, we’ve been discussing this war on drugs for quite a while, and whether or not it is doing anything to reduce drug use. We both agree that most drugs, particularly “hard” drugs, have a harmful and debilitating effect on most persons who ...
Profits from selling cocaine make it a lucrative ...
31-May-2005, United States, Winona Daily News
By David Krotz / Winona Daily News
The profits from cocaine are so great that drug dealers have been known to use two and four-engine airplanes on one-way flights into the United States, abandoning the planes once delivery is made.
The ...
Signs of drug-war shift
27-May-2005, United States, The Christian Science Monitor
Evidence is beginning to build that the approach to the war on drugs in the United States could be changing - by shifting attention away from small-time drug dealers and individual users toward major drug traffickers.
The nation's drug czar, for ...
Officials: War on drugs simply not working
15-May-2005, United States, The Herald Zeitung
Comal County’s district attorney and one of its district judges agreed this past week that the United States government’s “war on drugs” — and its judicial system — just aren’t working when it comes to stopping abuse of alcohol and illegal ...
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