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  Illegal drug trade information - Search.com
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.
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.
www.search.com /reference/Illegal_drug_trade?redir=1   (2423 words)

  
 frontline: drug wars: thirty years of america's drug war | PBS
Drug use becomes representative of protest and social rebellion in the era's atmosphere of political unrest.
At a press conference Nixon names drug abuse as "public enemy number one in the United States." He announces the creation of the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP), to be headed by Dr.
He uses the island as a hub for planes to refuel between Colombia and the U.S. Drug traffickers George Jung and Carlos Toro describe life on Norman's Cay.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/cron   (3867 words)

  
  smuggling
One method of combatting smuggling is to legalise the activity the smugglers are undertaking and reducing or eliminating the taxes which the smugglers are avoiding.
Smuggling now is considerably diversified: the smuggling of immigrants, armaments, illegal drugs, as well as the historical staples of smuggling, alcohol and tobacco are widespread throughout the Western world.
A large number of suspected smugglers are caught each year by airport police worldwide.
en.mcfly.org /smuggling   (280 words)

  
  Heroin
Unlike drugs such as LSD, the production of which requires considerable expertise in chemistry and access to constituents which are now tightly controlled, the refinement of the first three grades of heroin from opium is a relatively simple process requiring only moderate technical know-how and common chemicals.
At present, opium poppies are mostly grown in the Middle East, India, and Afghanistan, and in Asia, especially in the region known as the Golden Triangle straddling Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Yunnan province in China.
The half-life of these antagonists is usually much shorter than that of the opiate drugs they are used to block, so the antagonist usually has to be re-administered multiple times until the opiate has been metabolized by the body.
www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/heroin   (4182 words)

  
 Louisiana Drug Addiction Data Addiction Help Rehabilitation Recovery Resource
Drug rehab and Alcohol Recovery Resources are the most important addiction help needed when someone you love is giving up their life and family to drugs or alcohol.
The maritime and air drug smuggling threat in the Gulf of Mexico is underscored by the fact that the Louisiana Gulf Coast is closer to the port of Cartagena, Colombia, than it is to Boston, Massachusetts.
In the past, smugglers had to use high frequency (HF) and very high frequency (VHF) radios to communicate with their offloading or receiving teams and to use other means such as automobile headlights and fires to help pilots or captains pinpoint ground parties, which made them vulnerable to detection.
www.drug-rehab-referral.org /drug_addiction_data_louisiana.html   (2977 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.
The AFO is a drug gang known for their large distributions of controlled substances and propensity for violence in enforcement of the operation" (66).
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 Heroin at AllExperts
At present, opium poppies are mostly grown in the Middle East, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, and in Asia, especially in the region known as the Golden Triangle straddling Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Yunnan province in China.
The Drug Policy Alliance reports that up to 75% of new AIDS cases among women and children are directly or indirectly a consequence of injection drug use.
In the United States in early 2006, a rash of deaths have been attributed to either a combination of fentanyl and heroin, or pure fentanyl masquerading as heroin particularly in the Detroit Metro Area; one news report refers to the combination as 'laced heroin', though this is likely a generic rather than a specific term.
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 Illegal drug trade - Gnorx.com, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
For some drugs, large-scale drug production is not usually located in developed countries where those drugs are illegal — rather, those drugs are often manufactured or harvested in developing nations where corruption and instability allows producers to operate with minimal interference from law enforcement agencies.
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.
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.
www.gnorx.com /Drug_smuggling   (6065 words)

  
 Heroin   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Unlike drugs such as LSD, the production of which requires considerable expertise in chemistry and access to constituents which are now tightly controlled, the refinement of the first three grades of heroin from opium is a relatively simple process requiring only moderate technical expertise and common chemicals.
Safer means of taking the drug, such as smoking or nasal, oral and rectal insertion, are encouraged, due to the higher risks of overdose, infections and blood-borne viruses associated with drug injection.
In the United States in early 2006, a rash of deaths was attributed to either a combination of fentanyl and heroin, or pure fentanyl masquerading as heroin particularly in the Detroit Metro Area; one news report refers to the combination as 'laced heroin', though this is likely a generic rather than a specific term.
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 List of books on government misconduct, written by former government agents.
CIA drug smuggling during the past 50 years and the cover-ups by people in the three branches of government and by media people.
Including the the information are such matters as: Years of drug smuggling into the United States by people in or associated with the CIA, and with the knowledge or direction of many other people in government offices, including the White House.
This is the story, presented in novel form, by and of a former pilot for United Airlines, turned drug smuggler, and his intriguing world with Columbian drug smugglers.
www.defraudingamerica.com /list_of_books.html   (2872 words)

  
 Heroin - Psychology Wiki - a Wikia wiki
Unlike drugs such as LSD, the production of which requires considerable expertise in chemistry and access to constituents which are now tightly controlled, the refinement of heroin from opium is a relatively simple process requiring only moderate technical know-how and common chemicals.
The war on drugs must not in the future be sacrificed to other foreign policy considerations," stated the report [3].
The half-life of these antagonists is usually much shorter than that of the opiate drugs they are used to block, so the antagonist usually has to be re-administered multiple times until the opiate has been metabolized by the body.
psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Heroin   (3538 words)

  
 TheDEA.org: The Drugs
Guessing what a drug was from the subjective effects is usually very unreliable unless you have considerable prior experience with the suspected drug.
In response, the drug cartels started selling a slightly modified kind of fentanyl, which retained the effects of the original drug, but because its chemical structure was slightly different, it was not actually the drug that had been outlawed as "Fentanyl," and hence, was legal.
To combat this phenomenon the Drug Analog laws were created, which made a drug that had essentially the same effects and basic structure of an illegal drug illegal as well, without being explicitly outlawed.
thedea.org /thedrugs.html   (4132 words)

  
 Zach's Lie - Children's Book Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Drug smugglers used threat of violence to manipulate their situations.
Drugs were not glorified but rather the message itself was "this is what happens if you mess with drug dealers."
The drug dealers were so stereotypically depicted that the fear they evoked in the reader was minimal.
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 The Cambodia Daily WEEKEND
Powerful Lao and Cambodian drug czars, teams of drug smugglers, stupendous profits, difficult terrain, corruption, fear and a lack of police ability and equipment are all offered on a plate of answers as to why there is still little hard evidence that Cambodia has become an important corridor for Golden Triangle heroin.
Boats passing up and down the river are required to present their cargoes for inspection at the office, but if a suspicious substance was ever found, it would be difficult for officials to determine whether it was illegal narcotics because of the lack of drug-testing equipment, he said.
And most of Vietnam's now 120,000 drug abusers are addicted to the heroin that is smuggled from the Golden Triangle and across the country's borders with Laos and Cambodia.
www.camnet.com.kh /cambodia.daily/selected_features/drug.htm   (4239 words)

  
 List of famous drug smugglers
List of famous drug smugglers is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Many people do not find the hard/soft drug distinction useful, as it is the drug users' behavior that is the most important determinate of harm, not the choice of drug: all drugs can be harmful if misused.
A smuggler will facilitate illegal entry into a country for a fee, but on arrival at their destination, the smuggled person is free; the trafficking victim is enslaved.
www.experiencefestival.com /list_of_famous_drug_smugglers   (1105 words)

  
 RAWA.org: The Lure of Opium Wealth Is a Potent Force in Afghanistan
Some drug barons have changed their ways because they have already made millions of dollars and now see their self-interest in reform and politics, said a senior Western official involved in the anti-drug effort.
Almas, the warlord, denied that he trafficked in drugs and declared that the police were hopelessly corrupt.
Like many in the front-line drug squad, Shamsuddin, a 23-year police veteran, is angry that warlords with a long record of crimes and abuses in the country's wars have been promoted to top police positions, putting uniformed officers at their mercy.
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 Addiction   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The illegality of the fl markets purveying the drug trade is relative to geographic location, and the producing countries of the drug markets (many South American, Far East, and Middle East countries) are not as inclined to have "zero-tolerance" policies, as the consuming countries of the drug trade (mostly United States and Europe) are.
A mule is a lower-echelon criminal hired by a smuggling organization travel 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.
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 Famous Heroin Addicts - Tatoo Removel - thirtiethbirthday.ryegrass.org
This list of famous and celebrity addicts is by no means comprehensive.
Heroin addicts who abruptly stop using the drug commonly report flu-like symptoms, which may include One famous example is the pioneering surgeon William Halsted, who led a brilliant career while Famous Heroin Addicts at http://www.addictionrecoveryresource.com A typical crack-head or a heroin addict sees nothing, knows nothing when it Stories of opium and heroin addiction.
Review of: Harry Anslinger, the famous head of the Bureau of Narcotics in the period between the came from Charles Winick's famous "maturing out" study published in 1962.
thirtiethbirthday.ryegrass.org /tatoo-removel/famous-heroin-addicts.html   (366 words)

  
 Famous drug dealers.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
we would like to know what other drug dealers have Kaieteur News on their payroll?we already know that the brother of the publisher a well known child molester going by the name Reaz Khan was given lots of soft-ass publicity about his rape of a 13 yr...
Drug dealers, convenience-store owners and cops coexist warily, and honest work can be hard to hold onto.
Of course, now that all the drug dealers, rapists, pedophiles, theives, robbers, murderers, prostitutes, and school bullies are off the street, the next...
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 Encyclopedia of chemistry. Alphabetical index - L. Lexicon for chemistry, analytics & pharmaceutics
List of astronomical interferometers at visible and infrared wavelengths
List of countries by prevalence of opiates abuse
List of notable people who have taken psychedelic drugs
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 List of famous drug smugglers - Art History Online Reference and Guide
List of famous drug smugglers - Art History Online Reference and Guide
List of famous drug smugglers - Your Art History Reference Guide!
Some of the most famous drug dealers and drug financiers throughout history:
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 "Drug War in Afghanistan Poppies, pot, and war politics "
Half a century later, the UN warns that the Middle East drug trade is stronger than ever, with Middle Eastern countries growing poppies and cannabis, despite the heavy hand of American invaders and the many years of UN intervention.
Drug money and drug lords are part of the landscape, permeating everything from political bureaucracy to village life.
The drug war reveals the fault lines in capitalist alliances that are all about the US and England controlling strategic territory in the world's primary petroleum region.
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 Information on World-Wide Million Marijuana March, May 4, 2002: Drugwar.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Today 14,139 people are locked up for drug offenses in NY State prisons, comprising nearly 38% of the prison population.
Drug mafia, CIA blamed for sacking of Afghan governor (Jan. 21, 2007)
It is an event navigator that lists nearly all of the cities worldwide on one page.
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 A Witness List for the CIA Inspector General: Drugwar.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It has caused quite a stir and, since the surprise (May, 25) closed door hearings on CIA drug trafficking in Los Angeles in the wake of our May cover story, it is a yardstick against which the coming cover up can be graded.
Has openly detailed CIA drug involvement through NYPD for decades as well as the targeting of African Americans for CIA heroin shipped via the French Connection and the Prince of the City cases.
Received voluminous information about drug trafficking and decided it was not within his mandate to do anything about it.
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 Vleeptron_Z: The Law vs. The Law of Supply and Demand; capital punishment poster boys and girls
But most mules are willing smugglers, poor people, addicts, students on holiday, lured by a promise of a windfall of cash if they don't get caught.
But if the Australian public yawns at the busted smuggler's plight, and even yawns at the pleas from the prisoner's distraught parents, Australia's leaders just go through the motions, make a routine public statement of regret, and let the condemned man or woman just twist in the wind.
airport..we see the head of the melb drug squad who was masterminding much larger quantities of smack and on going directly into melb...convicted of 7 years and he will do 3 years.
vleeptronz.blogspot.com /2006/09/law-vs-law-of-supply-and-demand.html   (3452 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - List of famous drug smugglers
Science Fair Projects - List of famous drug smugglers
Or else, you can start by choosing any of the categories below.
Some of the most famous drug dealers and drug financiers throughout history:
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