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	Illegal drug trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Legal drugs like tobacco can be the subject of smuggling and illegal trading if the price difference between the smuggled-from and the smuggled-to country are high enough to make it profitable.
		The illegal trade of tobacco is motivated primarily by increasingly heavy taxation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Illegal_drug_trade (3510 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 (4771 words)

	Parents. The Anti-Drug. -- Drugs & Terror - The Important Role of Prevention
		Buying and using illegal drugs is not a victimless crime-it has negative consequences that can touch the lives of people around the world.
		Drug income is the primary source of revenue of some of the more powerful groups.
		Drug traffickers and terror groups undermine democratic institutions and the rule of law and distort legitimate economies.
	www.theantidrug.com /drugs_terror/factsheet.asp (583 words)

	Drug Paraphernalia Factsheet
		Drug paraphernalia is any legitimate equipment, product, or material that is modified for making, using, or concealing illegal drugs such as cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine.
		With the rise of the drug culture in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, the country began to see the appearance of “head shops,” which were stores that sold a wide range of drug paraphernalia.
		Drug paraphernalia is often marketed specifically to youth—with colorful logos, celebrity pictures, and designs like smiley faces on the products—the items are meant to look harmless and belie the dangers of taking controlled substances.
	www.dea.gov /concern/paraphernaliafact.html (401 words)

	Illegal Drug Trade in Russia Threatens National Security, Says Rogozin
		Synthetic drugs cause rapid addiction and increase the risk of mental illness similar to schizophrenia.
		Synthetic drugs have been in high demand among dealers recently, as they are much easier to bring into the country, and profit margins from their sale are very high.
		The drug control services are taking all possible measures to fight the spread of these drugs, which has been demonstrated by the increasing amount of drug seizures, he said.
	nyjtimes.com /cover/12-19-05/IllegalDrugTradeThreatensSecurity.htm (245 words)

	UNODC - Bulletin on Narcotics - 1983 Issue 2 - 004
		Society is increasingly regulated, and this regulation and the enormous sums of money illegal drug activities generate provide an opportunity to identify and follow monies forming part of the illegal drug trade.
		As money and the accumulation of money, resources and assets underpin the groups of criminals who are engaged in the illegal drug trade, the most effective action against them will be achieved by destroying the financial basis of their activities.
		Drug trafficking is a product of human need and human greed, It is the latter that is the prime province of law enforcement, Following the movement of money, a necessary part of illegal drug trafficking, assists in an appreciation of the ramifications of the activities of particular groups.
	www.unodc.org /unodc/pt/bulletin/bulletin_1983-01-01_2_page005.html (1814 words)

	Reuters, June 29, 2005: Illegal Drug Trade A World Force – UN
		The UN report, issued in Stockholm, said the global drug trade generated an estimated $321.6 billion in 2003, the latest year for which figures were available.
		It was the first time the U.N. drugs agency had made an estimate of the worth of the world's illegal drug market, which it said was necessary to understand the breadth of its influence and ability to destabilize countries.
		The main problem drugs continue to be opiates -- mainly heroin -- and cocaine, which accounted for the bulk of almost 22 million people the report termed problem drug users.
	www.csdp.org /news/news/reut_un05_062905.htm (567 words)

	Malawi Illegal Drug Trade Booms
		Which is why despite being a banned drug many people still grow and traffic in it in spite of the knowledge of the risks involved.
		Nkhalamba said many young people take the drug believing they will be able to read lots of books and therefore pass their exams with flying colours.
		As part of its efforts to fight the trade, two years ago the government launched a programme where persons who provide leads to the police on drug traffickers and users would be given a reward for their efforts.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v00.n202.a06.html (614 words)

	Latest News - World's Illegal Drug Trade Set At $321b A Year
		The illegal drug trade also continues to grow, and is increasingly linked to the financing of terrorism and the spread of AIDS, UN officials warn.
		UN Office on Drugs and Crime, which says the negative impacts of the drug trade touch every society in the world.
		One way the drug trade is financing international terrorism is through the tolls traffickers must pay terrorist organizations in producing countries, officials say.
	www.november.org /stayinfo/breaking3/321Billion.html (441 words)

	cannabisnews.com: How Victory in the Drug War Has Left Colombia
		Drug traffickers, who need to hide the origins of their profits, are willing to take a percentage loss on each dollar in the process of laundering it.
		It is fuelling the rest of the problems." The illegal drug trade is not the source of all of Colombia's problems; violence, civil strife, and corruption have plagued the country since independence.
		Neither drug was associated with violence, corruption, rebels, paramilitaries or "drug lords." Only when cocaine, opium and heroin were banned did the trade in these drugs become the domain of organized crime.
	www.cannabisnews.com /news/thread6948.shtml (4012 words)

	The Observer \| International \| Illegal drug trade hits new high as users total 200m
		The global drug trade is booming, fuelled by the demand from more than 200 million people worldwide who used illegal narcotics last year, new reports show.
		One of the biggest problems has been the explosion of amphetamine-type drugs, especially in the Far East where their use is becoming endemic.
		A number of states have recorded surprising consumption levels - Israelis are said to use 100 tonnes of marijuana, 20 tonnes of hashish, 20 million tablets of ecstasy, four tonnes of heroin, three tonnes of cocaine, and hundreds of thousands of LSD blotters annually.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,6903,1436471,00.html (859 words)

	MIN OMAR: WORKSHOP ON DRUG TRADE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
		Drug trafficking and organised crime, have increased to such an extent that the problem needs to be urgently addressed workshops of this nature are therefore of utmost importance.
		For example, we are told that the illegal drug trade is today the leading cause of death by homicide in the United States of America.
		Being aware of the fact that drug trafficking generates large financial profits and wealth, one of the main aims of the convention is to deprive persons engaged in drug trafficking of the proceeds of their criminal activities, thereby eliminating the incentive to continue in these activities.
	www.info.gov.za /speeches/1997/070229997.htm (5880 words)

	Criminal Justice Policy Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One quarter of all Amazonian deforestation in the 20th century was a result of the demand of the illegal drug trade.
		Unfortunately, the environmental consequences of the drug trade are much broader, and are widespread in the United States.
		All disputes in the $62.4 billion domestic illegal drug trade are resolved violently.
	www.cjpf.org /drug/environmentoped.html (663 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - 'Montego Bay centre of illegal drug trade' - Saturday \| April 30, 2005
		National Security Mini-ster, Dr. Peter Phillips has described Montego Bay as an organising centre for the illegal drug trade during a meeting held yesterday with the St. James Parish Council in Montego Bay to discuss issues of crime and violence.
		Citing a direct relationship with the illegal drug trade and the parish's burgeoning crime problem, Dr. Phillips said that his ministry was set on reducing the incidence of violent crimes through a series of related strategies.
		Phillips said that there is a new generation, which is growing up in a violent environment, and that the drug trade is the main conduit facilitating criminality.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20050430/news/news3.html (364 words)

	Guardian \| Counting costs of illegal drug trade
		The crudest estimates suggest the global illegal drugs market is worth £300bn a year and rising.
		That is equivalent to almost 8% of international trade and makes it one of the largest commodities traded after oil and arms.
		The illegal drug trade in Britain is estimated to be worth £10bn-£20bn a year.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4215608-103690,00.html (243 words)

	The illegal drug trade requires three things to exist
		The illegal drug trade requires three things to exist: a supply of drugs, a demand for drugs and laws prohibiting their sale and possession.
		Urging all religious communities to "call this nation and its leaders to their senses," Dr. Epperson characterized the drug war as racist, class-biased, corrupting, contemptuous of basic civil rights and detrimental to the health and education of all citizens.
		There cannot be any greater injustice than the use of the police force and state violence against the person and property of the sick, dying and disabled, who seek to preserve their lives through the use of a plant.
	www.ocnorml.org /tidbits/tidbits8.htm (1526 words)

	Texas Drug Lab Cleanup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The most well known recent drug cartels are the Cali, Medellín and Norte del Valle cartels in Colombia and the Juarez, Tijuana and Tamaulipas cartels in Mexico.
		Since the late 1980s, illegal drugs trafficking organizations headed and comprised of Mexican nationals became the dominant force of the illicit drug trade in the United States.
		Initially, Colombians were responsible for growing, processing and distributing cocaine in the U.S., but their strongholds were limited to South Florida and New York along with other metropolitan areas that housed smaller Colombian populations.
	www.texas-drug-lab-cleanup.com (1946 words)

	Massey News Article - Illegal drug trade value doubles in decade
		The research commissioned by Police, indicates the illicit trade in ATS drugs may have effectively doubled the dollar value of New Zealand’s total illegal drug trade in less than ten years.
		They also report that the proceeds from the sale of ATS drugs are likely to be particularly concentrated among a relatively small number of local organized criminal gangs who were instrumental in the introduction of methamphetamine manufacture to New Zealand.
		They said that these drug types were a factor in their criminal offending and made them more likely to get angry.
	masseynews.massey.ac.nz /2004/Press_Releases/10_04_04a.html (807 words)

	Drug Policy Alliance: Drug Treatment vs. Supply Side Measures
		(4) At eight percent of the global economy, the illegal drug trade is larger than the international trade in iron, steel, and motor vehicles.
		The enormous profits that can be reaped through drug trafficking, the ability for drugs to be produced almost anywhere in the world, and the fact that three billion people in the world live on less than $2 a day, all make interdiction and eradication a Sisyphean effort.
		Supply reduction efforts fail to reduce drug abuse because "suppliers simply produce for the market what they would have produced anyway, plus enough extra to cover anticipated government seizures."(11) Interdiction efforts are estimated to only intercept 10-15% of heroin(12) and 30% of cocaine.
	www.drugpolicy.org /library/factsheets/drugtreatmen/index.cfm (1155 words)

	Asia Times Online :: South Asia news, business and economy from India and Pakistan
		The drugs include generic versions of narcotic painkillers such as Vicodin and Oxycontin, amphetamines such as Ritalin, anabolic steroids, sex stimulant Viagra and dozens of other controlled substances, such as diazepam, alprazolam and paracetamol with codeine.
		Explaining this illegal trade, an official of the Narcotics Control Bureau in India said the reason for such a massive scale of exports was the huge price difference in medicine in India compared with advanced countries such as Canada, Australia and the United States.
		This, in effect, resulted in the illegal trade of medicine from India, which is not to justify the crime, but to highlight a distorted regime.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/GD27Df04.html (1243 words)

	Global Challenges \| Illegal Drug Trade, Focus on Enforcement Promotes Spread of HIV Worldwide, Expert Says - ...
		The illegal drug trade has promoted the spread of HIV in many parts of the world, and "excessive reliance on drug enforcement" has reduced the effectiveness of efforts to prevent the spread of the disease, Alex Wodak, an Australian physician, said Tuesday at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, CP/CBC News reports.
		He added that the "proportion of global HIV infections attributable to injection drug use are growing." Experts for the past 15 years have known that education of IDUs, provision of clean needles, removal of "dirty equipment" from circulation and provision of methadone for heroin addicts can help prevent the spread of HIV, Wodak said.
		Malinowska-Sempruch said, "Governments tell drug users to act responsibly and not to infect others, but the clinics shut the doors in the faces of those seeking to care of themselves.
	kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=39237 (377 words)

	Sectoral Debate 2004/2005
		The country has been winning the fight against the illegal drug trade, with the arrests of 5,844 persons for breaches of the Dangerous Drugs Act, during last year.
		Another area of positive achievement in the drive against illegal drugs, the Minister informed, was the reduction in the use of “swallowers and others who have attempted to smuggle drugs on their person”.
		He said that the Ministry has also commissioned a major drug study to examine the scale and structure of the illegal drug trade and its impact on Jamaica.
	www.jis.gov.jm /special_sections/budgetDebate2004/countryWinning.html (747 words)

	CNN.com - Health - City targets illegal prescription drug trade - April 10, 2001
		The street trade in prescription drugs is supplied by doctor-shoppers: people who visit a dozen doctors a day, get prescriptions for specific drugs, then sell those drugs illegally.
		Drug diversion experts said despite the size of the problem, police departments across the country dedicate few resources to fight it.
		"Their unit commanders want them to target the illicit street drugs -- the heroin and cocaine -- so that the pharmaceutical drugs are definitely put on the back burner," said Charlie Cichon of the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/HEALTH/04/10/drug.diversion (528 words)

	USATODAY.com - Japan accuses N. Korea of ties with illegal drug trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Peeling back a wooden panel to reveal a hidden compartment, officers found 10 boxes containing more than 330 pounds of North Korean methamphetamines, a potent stimulant that is the illegal drug of choice for abusers in Japan.
		Japan's illegal stimulant market, estimated at more than $9.3 billion annually, is an attractive target for North Korea.
		Because outsiders have very little access to North Korea, proving the communist regime in Pyongyang is involved in the drug trade is difficult.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-03-02-korea-drugs_x.htm (397 words)

	Illegal drug trade a world force, UN says
		It is a monster," Antonio Maria Costa, head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), said in an annual report.
		The UN report, issued in Stockholm, said the global drug trade generated an estimated $321.6 billion (178.5 billion pounds) in 2003, the latest year for which figures were available.
		Illegal drug use rose last year, UN report says
	www.tiscali.co.uk /news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2005/06/29/world/illegaldrugtradeaworldforceunsays.html (666 words)

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