Anti-Drug Gains in Colombia Don't Reduce Flow to ...
28-April-2005, United States, The New York Times
By JOEL BRINKLEY Published: April 28, 2005 OGOTÁ, Colombia, April 27 - Five years and $3 billion into the most aggressive counternarcotics operation ever here, American and Colombian officials say they have eradicated a record-breaking ...

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 ...

Report: Colombia drug war failing
01-April-2005, Colombia, CNN
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A new White House report showed that a massive aerial spraying offensive last year failed to dent the area of coca under cultivation in Colombia. But President Alvaro Uribe vowed on Friday to press ahead with ...

US steps up war on Afghan opium
26-March-2005, Afghanistan, Guardian Unlimited
The Pentagon, frustrated by the failure of the British-led battle against opium production in Afghanistan, plans to quadruple the spending on its anti-narcotics campaign, and deploy its troops in a full-scale war on the country's drug lords. "We ...

House rejects idea of taxing illegal drugs
25-March-2005, United States, The Clarion-Ledger
A tax on illegal drugs? Mississippi lawmakers are scrounging for ways to put new money into the state budget before Saturday night. But the idea of requiring dealers to buy tax stamps for cocaine or other illegal drugs was just too much for some ...

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 ...

Africa remains weak link in fight against drugs
06-March-2005, Austria, Mail & Guardian Online
Africa remains the world's weak spot in the fight against drugs because most countries on the continent lack the means to combat trafficking, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said in Vienna on Wednesday. "Most countries in Africa ...

Open Letter From Advocates Urges U.N. Commission ...
05-March-2005, Austria, Medical News Today
More than 300 scientists, policy analysts, human rights and HIV/AIDS advocacy groups and advocates from 56 countries on Tuesday signed an open... letter urging delegates attending next week's meeting of the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs in ...

U.S.: Afghanistan a near drugs' state:
04-March-2005, Afghanistan, newkerala
By KRISHNADEV CALAMUR WASHINGTON, March 4 : Afghanistan is on the verge of becoming a major narcotics state and could fill the world's heroin demand, a U.S. State Department report on drugs released Friday said. "With an estimated 40 percent to ...

UK Has One of Europe's Worst Drugs Problems - UN
02-March-2005, United Kingdom, Reuters
Britain ranks in the top three for heroin and ecstasy abuse in Europe and has the biggest amphetamine problem in the region, a United Nations drugs watchdog said on Wednesday. "Cocaine abuse appears to be increasing in the United Kingdom and, to a ...

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