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	Illegal drug trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dealers of "soft" drugs such as marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms often cite their motivations as the philanthropic desire to facilitate their recreational use, and tend to view drug prohibition laws as immoral restraints of personal civil liberties.
		These drugs are associated with the highly visible and chaotic patterns of use, often associated with criminality, that shape the stereotypical media portrayal of the 'junkie' or 'crack head'.
		Illegal supply of these so called hard drugs is driven mainly by the economics of drug prohibition, with huge profit margins available due to the collision of high demand for the drugs with harsh laws that attempt to prohibit their supply and use.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drug_trafficking (5361 words)

	Mexican Drug Traffickers: A Byproduct of Poor Border Security - Jim Kouri - MensNewsDaily.com™
		Mexican drug traffickers are the primary transporters of the major narcotics imported into the US The 2,000 mile shared border between Mexico and the US is the entry point for a large percentage of these drugs.
		Additionally, he indicated that Mexican drug organizations have established methamphetamine laboratories that have been estimated to produce 85 percent of the methamphetamine available in the US Overall, Mexican drug traffickers have become a significant supply source for most of the major drugs consumed in the United States.
		Mexican drug organizations, the DEA report continues, have established labs throughout Mexico and California, in addition to super-labs that are able to produce hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine in a week.
	www.mensnewsdaily.com /archive/k/kouri/2004/kouri122104.htm (1542 words)

	Drug Trafficking in Mexico - Discussion Paper 36
		Drug use and abuse in Mexico was not a widespread phenomenon and the number of people concerned was far from the figures of its northern neighbour.
		Older drug traffickers, suspected of the killing of the chief of the Judicial Police in Sinaloa in 1969 (33), refused the accusations and blamed younger traffickers who did not respect the old rules of the game (i.e.
		Heroin trafficking routes (1995-1996): from Jalisco, Guerrero, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Durango and Michoacán to Baja California; from Sinaloa, Nayarit and Michoacán to Sonora; and from Guerrero and Michoacán to Tamaulipas.
	www.unesco.org /most/astorga.htm (12659 words)

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		Questions about heavy use of drugs and alcohol are intended to measure dependence and need for treatment, and arrestees are also asked about their experiences with treatment for drugs and mental health problems.
		Drugs The NHSDA defines heavy drug use as consumption of any NIDA-5 drug 13 or more days a month for at least 1 month during the year before the user is interviewed.[2] On average, 34 percent or more of arrestees said they had used illegal drugs heavily.
		When questions about drug acquisition were field tested in focus groups of arrestees, the answers confirmed what ethnographers have often reported (e.g., Williams 1992): A substantial portion of the drug trade at the street level consists of combinations of goods and services exchanged in addition to or in place of cash.
	www.ncjrs.org /txtfiles1/nij/189101.txt (10939 words)

	DEA Briefs & Background, Drugs and Drug Abuse, Drug Descriptions, Drug Trafficking in the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The trafficking, distribution, and abuse of cocaine and crack cocaine have spread from urban environments to smaller cities and suburban areas of the country, bringing a commensurate increase in violence and criminal activity.
		Colombian traffickers utilize fishing vessels to transport bulk shipments of cocaine from Colombia to the west coast of Mexico and, to a lesser extent, the Yucatan Peninsula.
		The region's numerous and established drug transportation groups, extensive network of commercial flights, abundance of couriers, and historic connections to Europe provide traffickers with the means to route synthetic drugs through South America and the Caribbean to the United States.
	www.dea.gov /concern/drug_trafficking.html (8129 words)

	Government insiders and former drug traffickers reveal government's involvement in drugs.
		The issues of gross misconduct related to the drug environment are a part of a much broader pattern of corruption that is detailed in the various books written by former federal agent Rodney Stich in collaboration with a large number of other former government agents, and information provided by former drug smugglers and mafia figures.
		Drugging America is a literal college course on understanding the inner secrets of the government’s arrogant and sham war on drugs.
		Drugging America provides a rare fly-on-the-wall description by government insiders, drug smugglers, and mafia figures, of the misconduct by key people in the three branches of government that are literal Trojan horse subversion of vital U.S. interests, which continues to inflict great personal and financial harm upon the people of the United States.
	www.druggingamerica.com /index_drugging_right.html (3749 words)

	Dissent: Why drug traffickers love free trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is not simply because of the illicit, secretive nature of the drug trade itself, but because drug trafficking and money laundering have become so enmeshed with everyday commerce and financial transactions in a globalized economy that it has become nearly impossible to distinguish the illicit from the legitimate.
		Drugs now find their way to market commingled with other commodities in vast networks of air freight and container shipping by sea and land.
		If a drug trafficker or money launderer were asked what are the optimum conditions for conducting their operations, the answer would be low trade barriers, deregulation, relaxed international banking standards, border-erasing technology, and weak rule of law.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3745/is_199707/ai_n8760131 (1368 words)

	Drug traffickers live in burbs, deal in Detroit - 05/17/04
		They were also responsible for a drug feud in which at least 11 people have died in Detroit in the past 18 months, the government says.
		In the other major drug case, the U.S. attorney’s office announced Feb. 23 that 20 people from six states had been indicted as part of a multimillion-dollar drug ring that sold at least 40 tons of marijuana since 1991 worth more than $80 million on the street.
		In total, the government is seeking at least $50 million in property from the alleged drug deals in the Hodges investigation and a sport utility vehicle and three properties in Grosse Pointe Park and Detroit.
	www.detnews.com /2004/metro/0405/17/c01-154903.htm (1081 words)

	Burmese and Chinese drug traffickers arrested in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The five who are suspected to have been running drug trafficking operations between the East and North East of India and Burma were arrested in a rented house in Kolkata last week.
		The Burmese Junta recently claimed that drug trafficking had been strongly reduced in the wake of stepped-up operations by the government.
		In view of the increase in drug trafficking in the northeastern states, which border on Burma, the U.S. and the NCB decided to carry out joint operations to contain the menace.
	www.mizzima.com /archives/news-in-2003/news-in-may/23-may03-29.htm (376 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Drug traffickers move on Panama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The absence of U.S. military forces has left the door wide open for the return of drug traffickers who were expelled a decade ago, and at least one Panamanian intelligence officer has admitted publicly that Americans have good reasons to fear what may be in Panama's future.
		Law enforcement authorities said they are keeping tabs on other suspected drug traffickers, several of whom have moved their wives or mistresses to Panama while sending their children to boarding school or college in the United States or Europe.
		The drug traffickers have taken a hint from rich Colombians who have moved their families to Panama over the last five years to avoid violence in their homeland, the source said.
	www.wnd.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17364 (1220 words)

	DEA - Publications - Briefing Book - Major Traffickers & Their Organizations
		Over 20 years ago, Colombian drug trafficker Carlos Lehder-Rivas convinced some Medellin area traffickers to pool their drug shipments, thus cutting their individual chances of financial ruin if a single shipment was seized.
		Cali drug traffickers export hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States annually, and launder billions of dollars in drug proceeds.
		Although a prominent Cali trafficker, he is not viewed as a principal leader of the Cali drug mafia.
	www.druglibrary.org /Schaffer/dea/pubs/briefing/2_8.htm (2516 words)

	Elder - The New Drug Traffickers
		But faced with the current prices, growing numbers of older Americans--especially middle-income elders--are taking risks, such as reducing their drug compliance to make a bottle of costly pills last longer--or are making a run for the border.
		When her supply of atorvastatin, a cholesterol-lowering drug, runs low, she simply points her car to the border and goes to the Atlantic Super Value pharmacy.
		Soper and his wife take eight other prescription drugs that will devour much of the $30,000 annual retirement income they had hoped would make their later years comfortable.
	www.asaging.org /at/at-213/elder-drug.html (1125 words)

	Submarine for drug traffickers found in Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BOGOTA, March 25 (AFP) - Authorities have found a submarine built by drug traffickers to carry up to 10 tonnes of narcotics, at a small port on the Pacific coast, police said Friday.
		DAS director for Valle province, Eduardo Fernandez, said the discovery concluded a six-month investigation, adding that it would have been ready around Easter, when drug traffickers assumed maritime authorities would have their guards down.
		The submarine was to have been taken out to open waters, thus avoiding navy controls, with drug transshipment on the high seas to high speed boats for transportation to the United States, he said.
	www.politicalgateway.com /news/read.html?id=3341 (206 words)

	8 suspected drug traffickers arrested - Jul. 03, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"The raid was conducted to arrest the suspected drug traffickers.
		The explosives were turned over to the 24th explosive ordnance disposal team of the Joint Task Force Gensan, while the illegal drugs and other items were taken by the PDEA for laboratory examination.
		"They were suspected drug traffickers but we will try to find out why they were keeping explosives," he said.
	www.inq7.net /reg/2003/jul/03/reg_4-1.htm (325 words)

	DanceSafe: Philippines: Mayor Warns Drug Traffickers Anew
		Efren Alcuizar, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency ( PDEA ) regional director, said they have been scoring several successes in their effort to stamp out illegal drug trafficking in the city.
		A source said the number of suspected drug pushers and users in the PDEA watchlist is now about 80 people, a substantial drop from over 300 suspects two years ago.
		The opening of the drug abuse prevention and control week, held at the Gaisano Dadiangas Food Court, was attended by students from various public and private schools here.
	www.mapinc.org /safe/v04/n1624/a03.html (390 words)

	Drug Enforcement Administration Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation, coordinated by DEA’s Special Operations Division, targeted a major methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking organization, and thus far has resulted in the arrest of 28 individuals, the seizure of over $8 million dollars in U.S. Currency, 40 lbs.
		Clark has been known as the most powerful and violent narcotics trafficker in Detroit since the era of Young Boys Incorporated (YBI) and Best Friends in late 1980's and early 1990's.
		Clark has been able to maintain his organization through the use of intimidation and violence and is thought to be associated with numerous murders.
	www.usdoj.gov /dea (313 words)

	ARE DRUG TRAFFICKERS FINANCING US GOVERNMENT DEBT? - Gold & Silver Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A clue that the war on drugs is, at best, a very limited and phony enterprise, designed (in part) to protect a favored source of revenue for the US government.
		The traffickers are permitted to go about their business, with the understanding that they will buy up a piece of the US national debt.
		Also note that $85 billion (from drug traffickers) is not really a huge piece of the US deficit.
	www.goldismoney.info /forums/showthread.php?t=16971 (762 words)

	TP: Kosovo »Freedom Fighters« Financed By Organised Crime
		Drug money was also laundered in the Albanian pyramids (ponzi schemes) which mushroomed during the government of former President Sali Berisha (1992-1997).
		Drug barons in Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia (with links to the Italian mafia) had become the new economic elites, often associated with Western business interests.
		In the words of a 1994 Report of the Geopolitical Drug Watch: "the trafficking [of drugs and arms] is basically being judged on its geostrategic implications (...) In Kosovo, drugs and weapons trafficking is fuelling geopolitical hopes and fears"...
	www.heise.de /tp/r4/artikel/2/2743/1.html (2840 words)

	Drug traffickers on new high (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It’s an injection called Buphrenorphine, and it is fast becoming a hot favourite among drug traffickers.
		The agencies began zeroing in on Buphrenorphine ampoules after a huge consignment was intercepted at Karachi airport by Pakistan intelligence in October 2004.
		It is the morphine in the ampoules that is attractive to traffickers.
	web.mid-day.com /news/city/2005/march/104921.htm (349 words)

	Ex-troops aiding drug traffickers - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - February 24, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Law-enforcement and intelligence officials said the well-armed gang, known as the "Zetas," is linked to hundreds of killings and dozens of kidnappings on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly over a wide area of southeastern Texas from Laredo to Brownsville and in cities throughout Mexico.
		In protecting established drug corridors into the United States, gang leaders have targeted U.S. Border Patrol agents and state and local police, authorities said, along with Mexican military and law-enforcement personnel, even offering bounties of up to $50,000.
		"Based on the activities of both the drug cartels and their hired guns, sources suggest it is only a matter of time before Mexican drug wars spill over onto U.S. streets," the report said.
	www.washtimes.com /national/20050224-123713-6092r.htm (869 words)

	11 drug traffickers executed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beijing - Chinese authorities have executed 11 people convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced dozens of others to death ahead of International Anti-Drugs Day, state media reported on Friday.
		A court in Shenzhen sentenced at least two convicted drug traffickers to death, including a "big Hong Kong drug lord" identified as Li Qingyuan, the newspaper said.
		Problems with drug addiction have soared in recent years and China regularly announces large seizures of heroin, opium and other illicit narcotics.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1548348,00.html (381 words)

	Total Coverage: The CIA, Contras, and Drugs
		[I]t is clear that individuals who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking, the supply network of the Contras was used by drug trafficking organizations, and elements of the Contras themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug traffickers.
		It agreed with the CIA: The intelligence agency had intervened in a drug case in the U.S. on behalf of the Contras.
		The secret agreement, which remained in place from 1982 to 1995 (when Janet Reno rescinded it), was not mentioned in the CIA report, nor was a copy made public; Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) later obtained a copy of the agreement and provided it to the MoJo Wire (see "A Tainted Deal").
	www.motherjones.com /news/special_reports/total_coverage/coke.html (1877 words)

	Patriot Act Being Used To Investigate Drug Traffickers \| JoinTogether.org
		The U.S. Department of Justice is using the USA Patriot Act, which was created as a tool to fight terrorism, to investigate drug traffickers and other criminal activity with no connection to terrorists, the New York Times reported Sept. 27.
		A recent Justice Department report submitted to the U.S. Congress shows a sampling of hundreds of cases where federal authorities used the powers of the Patriot Act to investigate individuals, conduct wiretaps and other surveillance, and seize funds from overseas bank accounts even though the cases were unrelated to terrorism.
		For instance, federal officials investigated a major drug distributor using the expanded authority afforded under the Patriot Act.
	www.jointogether.org /sa/news/summaries/reader/0,1854,567051,00.html (304 words)

	Drug traffickers wreak havoc in Haiti
		For Louisdhon and his roommate, Richard Miguel, this city is a drug haven.
		One of the most active drug bazaars is around the block from their second-floor
		She hasn't touched the drug in years, she said, although it would be easy to get
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /haiti/havoc.htm (918 words)

	americas.org - Drug Traffickers Bought Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Admitting that drug traffickers took advantage of the nation’s weak banking system in 1995 and 1996, government officials confirmed in mid-March that the Juárez cartel had bought Anahuac, a small domestic bank.
		An inquiry has uncovered politically powerful investors, including the brother of President Ernesto Zedillo, the son and nephew of a former president, a former presidential candidate, and the head of the country’s largest labor confederation.
		All have denied any knowledge of drug cartel influences in the troubled bank.
	www.americas.org /item_11585 (159 words)

	frontline: drug wars: business: inside the drug traffickers' world \| PBS
		In their first television interview since their 1996 release, brothers Juan David and Jorge spoke to FRONTLINE about their years in the drug business, and claim they are no longer associated with the drug trade.
		However, their younger brother Fabio was arrested on drug charges by Colombian police in October 1999.
		He has some stories to tell of binge sex and drugs on Norman's Cay with and the irresistable business of working with Lehder and his partners in running cocaine filled small planes From early childhood, Toro and Carlos Lehder were friends growing up near Medellin, Colombia.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/business/inside (570 words)

	Russia's New Drug Law in Effect: No Jail for Drug Users, Greater Penalties for Drug Traffickers
		Under the package of amendments to the criminal code, distinctions will be made between large-scale drug traffickers and users and small-time dealers.
		The radical change in Russian drug policy came as part of sweeping reforms of the criminal code, which also include the strengthening of citizens' protections when facing criminal charges.
		Russian drug expert Lev Levinson told the Moscow Times that in addition to stopping new drug possession prisoners from entering the gulag, the change in the law could lead to the early release of the hundreds of thousands currently doing time on drug possession charges.
	stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle/328/russia.shtml (1066 words)

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