U.N.: Iraq becoming transit point for drugs
12-May-2005, Iraq, MSNBC
A U.N. drug body warned Thursday that Iraq is emerging as a transit point for drugs, with traffickers working with insurgents and terrorists, and called on the international community to tackle the problem before it’s too late. Drug traffickers ...

Baggage handlers 'paid $300,000' in drug plot
11-May-2005, Australia, Sidney Morning Herald
Qantas baggage handlers were paid $300,000 to smuggle a briefcase of cocaine through Sydney airport, a court was told today. The allegation was set out in court documents tendered during a bail hearing for Ian Robert Chalmers, 40, charged over an ...

Inside the war on drugs
08-May-2005, United States, Pittsburgh Tribune Review
If a mere 10 percent of Don Winslow's new novel, "The Power of the Dog," were true, it would be horrifying. "I would flip that ratio," Winslow says. That 90 percent could be true is nearly unfathomable. "The Power of the Dog" chronicles the ...

No rest here in war on drugs
04-May-2005, United States, Wiscnews.com
By Mark Boxley The use and sale of drugs in Portage is on the rise and the dog leading the pack is crack cocaine. "We've seen a large increase in the usage and sales," Detective Dan Pionke of the Portage Police Department said. The ...

A New Plan for Colombia
02-May-2005, Colombia, znet
Albert Einstein defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." If he were alive today, he would consider US policy toward Colombia insane. Last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited ...

Panelists decry 'war' on drugs
27-April-2005, United States, The Brown Daily Herald
At Tuesday night's panel, "The International War on Drugs: Plan Colombia and Beyond," Peter Andreas, assistant professor of political science and international studies, admitted that he once inadvertently contributed to Bolivia's cocaine economy by ...

Drug trade: The hard sell - making drugs match ...
19-April-2005, New Zealand, The New Zealand Herald
If all the varieties of illicit drugs in the world were lined up for sale, they would easily outnumber the wines in your local supermarket. When it comes to choice, drug users have never had it so good. New substances are rolling off secret ...

Cops win small battle, but U.S. is blowing drug ...
08-April-2005, United States, Chicago Sun Times
Tim Trevier is a big man with 15 titanium earrings, a diamond nose ring, a leather do-rag and a modified fu manchu. If you saw him on the street, you'd look twice, but it would never cross your mind that he is cop. At 42, he has been a police ...

Cocaine price steady despite drug war gain
15-March-2005, United States, newkerala
Less Colombian cocaine is coming into the United States, but the price of the drug hasn't gone up, the U.S. Southern Command chief said Tuesday.Gen. Bantz Craddock said last year 222 million metric tons of cocaine was interdicted coming from ...

Drugs workers form alliance to challenge UN’s ...
06-March-2005, United Kingdom, The Sunday Herald
A LEADING Scottish drugs professional is to challenge the adoption of zero-tolerance drugs policies by the United Nations at an international drugs conference in Vienna this week. David Liddell, director of the Scottish Drugs Forum and chair of ...

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