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	Geopium - Drug trade in Asia - Golden Crescent - Golden Triangle - Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy
		However, today’s drug trade in Asia threatens the health and safety of its population as well as the stability of its countries.
		The drug trade is shaped and spurred by mercantilism and grows on the fertile and complex terrain of poverty and armed conflicts.
		The first stage in the Asia commerce in drugs was probably the opium trade along the numerous and far-reaching precursors of the Silk Road and the early Chinese maritime trade that reached Africa by the first century BCE.
	www.pa-chouvy.org /drugtradeinasia.html (2249 words)

	The politics of drug trade
		The history of control of drugs is seldom taught to our people because it could unveil the forces that actually helped the pharmaceutical industry to earn huge profits and helped spawn a whole generation of pill-takers hooked on drugs.
		It may seem strange and shameful that a mighty nation should have picked on a weak one and sided with the smugglers of a forbidden drug, but that is what the politics of drug trade is all about.
		A recent study reveals that the share of Pakistani drug cartels in the total world drug trade is no less than $20 billion a year.
	www.cobrapost.com /documents/drugtrade.htm (1535 words)

	The Bush Administration's "Drugs = Terrorism" Fraud (April 2002)
		Drug laws are far more effective at putting profit into narcotics than law enforcement is at taking the profit out.
		Drug Enforcement Agency chief Asa Hutchinson told Congress in October, “The DEA will continue to aggressively identify and build cases against drug-trafficking organizations contributing to global terrorism.
		The futility of government drug bans was made stark by one White House anti-drug ad that purported to show the different costs that go into a drug smuggler’s operation.
	www.fff.org /comment/com0204f.asp (878 words)

	Illegal drug trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A mule is a lower-echelon criminal recruited by a smuggling organization to cross a border carrying drugs, or sometimes an unknowing person in whose bag or vehicle the drugs are planted, for the purpose of retrieving them elsewhere.
		The main organized drug cartels deal primarily with the most compact (thus easy to smuggle) and profitable substances cocaine, heroin, MDMA (ecstasy), and methamphetamine, and it is these that are the primary focus of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.
		Oliver North and Barry Seal were caught and investigated during the Iran-Contra scandal, implicated in the use of the drug trade as a secret source of funding for the USA's support of the Contras.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Illegal_drug_trade (3131 words)

	RECENT CHANGES IN THE DUTCH CANNABIS TRADE: THE CASE FOR REGULATED DOMESTIC PRODUCTION
		First the drugs disappeared from official custody in the course of the operation (which, it is reported, had also planned to acquire 5000 kilos of pure cocaine) and then surfaced in the UK.
		As this type of trade has grown and organised criminal groups prospered-capital available for other drug- related ventures in the Netherlands and abroad also increase; it is as though the criminal drug syndicates in the cannabis trade were given new lines of credit.
		Foreign governments and international drug organisations shouldbe aware of the current Dutch policy with respect to cannabis and the negative effects of criminalisation of cannabis on public health and the social position of users.
	www.drugtext.org /library/articles/945411.html (2827 words)

	Edmonton Drug Rehab, Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehab Centers referrals for Drug Treatment and Alcohol Rehab Centers ...
		There is no simple solution as much as the Drug trade is controlled by organized crime groups including gangs, said Ian Cameron, director of the criminal intelligence of Alberta.
		The final stage of those Drug rehab centers is made specifically for the individual and it is made after the case supervisor has been able to see what that individual needs to work on specifically to ensure their success.
		Shortly after that time, the term detoxification came to mean "the substitution of a long-acting Drug in the bloodstream for a short-acting Drug that you are attempting to stop." And that is a definition that to some extent continues until this day.
	www.drug-rehab.ca /edmontonrehabcenter.htm (4790 words)

	The Truth Seeker - MI6 Are The Lords of the Global Drug Trade
		It may be a revelation to many people that the global drug trade is controlled and run by the intelligence agencies.
		This global drugs trade controlled by British intelligence is worth at least Â£500 billion a year.
		The intelligence agencies have always used addictive drugs as a weapon against the masses to bring in their long term plan for a one world government, a one world police force designed to be NATO and a micro chipped population known as the New World Order.
	www.thetruthseeker.co.uk /article.asp?ID=4540 (2497 words)

	Drug trade 'reaches to Afghan cabinet'
		Some cabinet ministers in Afghanistan are deeply implicated in the drugs trade and could be diverting foreign aid into trafficking, the country's anti-narcotics minister said yesterday.
		The "drug problem in Afghanistan is demand-driven" from the West, he said, with 90 per cent of profits being made outside the country.
		A British official said that a number of Afghan MPs were linked to the drugs trade and that some officials had to be circumvented because they were corrupted by drugs.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/february2006/050206drug_trade.htm (726 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Drug addiction had earlier been limited, with death sentence as a punishment and strict government control to keep the wide-known slogan “No talking about politics, no drug taking,” up and running.
		Nuri said that the spread of drug addiction and trade was also boosted by growing unemployment rates and a large number of cafes in the capital.
		In Al-Muridi market, the trade found a ground, leaving inhabitants as concerned as disgruntled that their children might fall prey to the phenomenon in light of great psychological frustrations after the invasion.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2003-06/02/article04.shtml (601 words)

	CIA complicity with Burmese drug trade
		The drug shipment Aye had been overseeing was on its way to one of the world's most notorious drug kingpins, Lo Hsing Han, destined to become a key business partner of Burma's emerging narco-dictatorship.
		Bertil Lintner, a noted authority on Burma's drug trade, says there is a private banking boom in Rangoon based on the influx of narco-dollars.
		The SLORC's close relationship with Burma's most powerful drug traffickers was revealed to the world at this past spring's wedding celebration of entrepreneur Steven Law, son of legendary drug lord Lo Hsing Han, who as of 1994 controlled the most heavily armed drug-trafficking organization in Southeast Asia.
	ciadrugs.homestead.com /files/burma01.html (3451 words)

	The Spoils of War:Afghanistan's Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade by Michel Chossudovsky
		One of the "hidden" objectives of the war was precisely to restore the CIA sponsored drug trade to its historical levels and exert direct control over the drug routes.
		The Afghan trade in opiates constitutes a large share of the worldwide annual turnover of narcotics, which was estimated by the United Nations to be of the order of $400-500 billion.
		However, what distinguishes narcotics from legal commodity trade is that narcotics constitutes a major source of wealth formation not only for organised crime but also for the US intelligence apparatus, which increasingly constitutes a powerful actor in the spheres of finance and banking.
	www.globalresearch.ca /articles/CHO404A.html (4069 words)

	Talk:Illegal drug trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Such is much more appropriate to this general article on the "illegal drug trade", for it should not delineate very specific cases for certain drugs and certain regions that are inaccurate for other drugs and, most importantly, other regions, and so incomplete.
		Trade in illegal drugs is driven by the economics of greed and poverty, and in many cases by addiction.
		Each drug calls for different hierarchies and professions, different skills, etc. It's a true trade -- several very different trades, in fact, which is why this subject requires separate headers (and preferably separate articles) for each drug -- and this much should not be understated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Illegal_drug_trade (4791 words)

	Drug Policy Alliance: UN At Odds With US Claims Over North Korea Drug Trade
		North Korea's alleged drug trafficking activities were highlighted two weeks ago when Australia seized a North Korean cargo ship after it was said to have unloaded 110 pounds of heroin valued at $50 million, and a member of the North Korean ruling Worker's Party was found on board.
		Japanese authorities - who are fighting a multi-million-dollar trade in methamphetamines smuggled into the country via North Korea - are also struggling to find evidence that the regime is sponsoring the trade.
		Although it has not been proven the North Korean drug trade is officially sanctioned and supported by the North Korean government, U.S. Officials claim North Korea is earning between $500 million and $1 billion from the narcotics trade, which they fear is being used to support Pyongyang's weapons development.
	www.drugpolicy.org /news/05_07_03nthkorea.cfm (348 words)

	Bust has hurt drug trade
		Top drug enforcement officials and Seattle police said Friday that a recent drug bust involving the arrest of more than 90 alleged drug importers and dealers in the Seattle area had a "huge" impact on the drug trade here.
		At a news conference at Seattle Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters, agents displayed a table full of seized cash and weapons, and DEA Special Agent in Charge Rodney Benson told of more than $1 million and 34 kilograms of cocaine, 10 pounds of heroin and the 12 pounds of methamphetamine taken by agents during the raids.
		One of them is alleged to have dealt drugs from a mobile home in Kalama, north of Portland, while on electronic home monitoring for a pending federal drug case in Nebraska.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/273457_drugbust10.html (732 words)

	North Korea's drug trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		drug to be sold at places like Hyesan, the border city up north.
		Bureaus 1-3 are for the drugs; 4-8 for the gold.
		drug deals as it is headed by someone who used to sell illegal drugs in Macao before.
	www.backtopyongyang.org /North_Korean_drug_trade.html (1101 words)

	Drug War Distortions: Estimating The Illicit Drug Market
		That estimate can be found in a United Nations publication issued in 1998, "Economic and Social Consequences of Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking," and was until early in 2005 cited in Drug War Facts.
		These include the effects on employment and productivity, determinants of illicit drug prices, effects on balance of payments, on financial systems, on investment and savings, on family and community, health, education, environment, crime, corruption, and dangers for civil society.
		This is certainly not a document arrived at by a serious effort to determine the size of the illegal drug industry, although it does puts together the results of various studies to obtain a figure for the total world turnover of the illegal industry.
	www.drugwardistortions.org /distortion19.htm (1522 words)

	Latest News - US-Led Forces Prepare To Combat Drug Trade In Afghanistan
		US-led coalition forces are preparing a coordinated effort to attack the narcotics trade in Afghanistan, recognizing that drug income could be used to fund insurgents and terrorists in the country, US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld says.
		It has led to a huge increase in drug seizures, and closer judicial cooperation between the countries has led to the extradition of 120 alleged drug traffickers to the United States for trial in two years.
		The vast expertise and scope of the various drug reform organizations will enable you to stay informed on the ever-changing, many-faceted aspects of the movement.
	www.november.org /stayinfo/breaking2/AfghanDrugTrade.html (653 words)

	Drug Policy Alliance: The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
		Drug Policy Alliance: The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
		The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, The Politics of Heroin includes meticulous documentation of dishonesty and dirty dealings at the highest levels from the Cold War until today.
		New chapters detail U.S. involvement in the narcotics trade in Afghanistan and Pakistan before and after the fall of the Taliban, and how U.S. drug policy in Central America and Colombia has increased the global supply of illicit drugs.
	www.drugpolicy.org /library/bookstore/poh.cfm (273 words)

	Drug trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Almost all of the drug trade from Afghanistan and Pakistan can also be traced to the murky activities of the CIA.
		The west often criticises it for treating drug smugglers 'harshly' (in Iran, the penalty for drug smuggling is death).
		Alfred McCoy, author of Politics of Heroin: CIA complicity in the Global Drug Trade, says that beginning with the CIA raids from Burma into China in the early fifties, the agency found that 'ruthless drug lords made effective anti-communists.' He goes on to state: 'During a major operation, everything is subordinated' to the main purpose.
	www.muslimedia.com /archives/special98/drug.htm (1041 words)

	Mexico’s Mounting Drug Trade - Council on Foreign Relations
		This has provoked anger from Mexican officials, who blame their drug trafficking problems partially on the United States’ high demand for drugs (ABC).
		Meanwhile, U.S. assistance to the Mexican “war on drugs” pales in comparison to the funding it has given to the Andean Counterdrug Initiative—some $5.4 billion since 2000, with the bulk of that money going to Colombia.
		Aside from information-sharing through a border partnership that is focused on trade and immigration issues (PDF), U.S. counternarcotics efforts in Mexico primarily entail training and technical assistance to Mexican law enforcement.
	www.cfr.org /publication/11599/mexicos_mounting_drug_trade.html (873 words)

	UNODC - World Drug Report
		More people are involved in the production and trafficking of illicit drugs and still more are touched by the devastating social and economic costs of this problem.
		The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime is in the process of further enhancing the World Drug Report.
		The world's biggest drug market is growing and uncharted cannabis is produced in their countries, and their other
	www.unodc.org /unodc/world_drug_report.html (370 words)

	Inside the Afghan drug trade \| csmonitor.com
		For this reason, the Monitor launched its own investigation in a province known for trafficking, to see how prevalent the drug trade is among police chiefs and what evidence could be found.
		Like Commander Dost, Nasir is a relatively small player in the drug trade, but he gives an inside picture of how some of the bigger police commanders - both in Afghanistan and in neighboring Tajikistan - punish drug-trafficking competitors to burnish their law-enforcement credentials, or take bribes from those willing to pay for favorable treatment.
		Nasir says he has stopped taking drugs across the border himself, because he is too well known, but he continues to send his men to do the job instead.
	www.csmonitor.com /2006/0613/p01s04-wosc.html (1214 words)

	The Canadian Cross Border Drug Trade
		She quoted Ken Polk, director of communications for the health minister, as saying that some of the changes being considered may not need Parliament's approval and that Prime Minister Paul Martin had told reporters the health minister was articulating the position of the government of Canada.
		Although Canadian online pharmacies have been selling drugs to Americans since 2000, according to the FDA it is illegal for anyone to ship prescription drugs not approved by the FDA into the U.S., even though the drug may be legal to sell in the pharmacy's own country.
		It is also illegal for American doctors to receive Canadian drugs for their patients but some doctors have been willing to take the risk on behalf of their patients.
	www.the-surfs-up.com /news/prescriptiondrugs.html (1558 words)

	Drug War: Trade Orders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Prohibitionists seem to think drug use and abuse are simple issues, when in fact they're more convoluted and confusing than the bleatings of anti-drug forces crowing about record siezures at one moment than crying for the need for ever more taxmoney to pay for the War because the flow of illegal drugs is un-ending.
		Despite some assertions that all currently illegal drugs are "detestible" and their use will "stunt the mind, inhibit the body, and curtail productivity" is just plainwrong in many cases, this article does make some very valid and rational points.
		The drug, called ibogaine, is based on an active principle found in the iboga plant, found in Gabon, and reportedly eliminates the withdrawal symptoms and cravings associated with heroin addiction by blocking brain receptors that have previously been affected by the drug."
	www.drugwar.com /tradeorders.shtm (14820 words)

	CIA Narco-Colonialism
		I, personally, repeatedly heard from prosecutors and people in the law-enforcement world that CIA agents were required to sit in on the debriefing of various people who were being questioned about the drug trade.
		Taken alone, one CIA drug ring, that of Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo (two Contra supporters based in Guadalajara, Mexico) were known by DEA to be smuggling four tons A MONTH into the U.S. during the early Contra war.
		deliberately exposing them to drugs, that is a terrible decision that should never be made in secret." (Jack Blum, speaking before the October 1996 Senate Select Intelligence Committee on alleged CIA drug trafficking to fund Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s, Chaired by Senator Arlen Specter).
	ciadrugs.homestead.com /files (725 words)

	Interview with Alfred McCoy - re Heroin and the CIA
		In short, there was a conflict between the drug war and the cold war.
		drug war, sacrificing a key intelligence post for the DEA in Honduras.
		The White House is claiming victory in the drug war, William Bennet, the
	www.druglibrary.org /Schaffer/heroin/mccoy1.htm (3274 words)

	Drug War Facts: Environment
		Source: Trade and Environment Database (TED), TED Case Studies: Deforestation in Colombia (Washington DC: American University, 1997), from the web at http://www.american.edu/TED/coldefor.htm, last accessed March 23, 2005.
		Source: Trade and Environment Database (TED), TED Case Studies: Columbia Coca Trade (Washington DC: American University, 1997), from the web at http://www.american.edu/TED/colcoca.htm, last accessed March 23, 2005.
		Tests have yet to show that use of the fungus is feasible, and methods to produce the fungicide in sufficient quantities as well as a delivery mechanism have yet to be developed.
	www.drugwarfacts.org /environm.htm (2197 words)

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