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| | Illegal drug trade Information - TextSheet.com |
 | | As with legal commerce, the illegal drug trade is multi-layered and often multi-national, with layers of manufacturers, processors, distributors, wholesalers and retailers. | | | In jurisdictions where certain addictive drugs are illegal, they are generally supplied by criminal drug dealers, often in the form of organized crime. | | | Because disputes cannot be resolved through legal means, participants at every level of the illegal drugs industry are liable to compete with one another through violence. |
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| | Drug lord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Such figures are often difficult to bring to justice, as they might never be directly in possession of something illegal, but are insulated from the actual trade in drugs by several layers of underlings. | | | A drug lord is the term used to describe a person who controls a sizable network of persons involved in the illegal drugs trade. | | | Notorious drug lords have included Al Capone in the 1920's (when alcohol was an illegal drug in the United States during the period known as Prohibition) and more recent times, Amado Carrillo Fuentes (the "Lord of the Skies"), the Felix Brothers, Emilio Esparragoza, Ernesto Fonseca, and Pablo Escobar. |
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| | Illegal drug trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In jurisdictions where legislation restricts or prohibits the sale of certain popular drugs, it is common for an illegal drugs trade to develop. | | | Because disputes cannot be resolved through legal means, participants at every level of the illegal drug industry are liable to compete with one another through violence. | | | In the last ten years, United States Department of Justice (DOJ) statistics indicate that the percentage of Latin American non-U.S. citizens that were federally arrested in the U.S. for illegal drug offenses has increased from the low 20 percentile to over 30 percent as of 2003. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_trafficking
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| | Drug Prohibition |
| | Considering employment discrimination, the potentially lucrative nature of the drug trade, the fact that blacks are arrested at six times the rate of whites, 77% of current illegal drug users are white while less than 17% are black, the appeal of the drug market is almost tantamount to entrapment. | | | Additionally, if prohibition has no substantial impact on the level of illegal drug use, illicit drugs should be legalized. | | | He asserts that the drug war is simply not winnable because of geographic challenges and the lucrative nature of the drug trade. |
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| | Testimony of John Walters, director, Office of National Drug Control Policy, hearing of the House Western Hemipshere Subcommittee, February 27, 2003 |
| | The threat of illegal drugs to the United States remains high, although we have made some progress in reducing the number of users, and the most recent surveys show a significant drop in the key population of young users. | | | To view the drug trade as a market is to recognize both the challenges involved and the hopeful lessons of our recent experience: that the drug trade is not an unstoppable force of nature but a profit-making enterprise where costs and rewards exist in an equilibrium that can be disrupted. | | | The linkage between terrorists and the drug trade is most evident in Colombia, where FARC terrorists fighting for control of a drug transit corridor near the town of Bojayá killed more than 114 last May, including 45 children, who has taken refuge in a local church. |
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http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/03022703.htm
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| | LACSON LINKS BARBERS TO DRUG LORD |
| | Arroyo admitted that the threat of narco-politics in the Philippines has grown into a "national security problem," with no less than elected officials, persons in the government and uniformed services accused of involvement in the illegal drug trade and playing "patron" to local and international drug traffickers. | | | Having barely warmed his seat as President Arroyos chief vigilante in the governments war on illegal drugs, Barbers was accused by Lacson yesterday of coddling suspected drug lord Lawrence Wang. | | | Barbers, for his part, said Wang was arrested by his men led by then Maj. Lucio Margallo for distributing illegal drugs and illegal possession of firearms. |
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http://www.newsflash.org/2003/05/hl/hl018246.htm
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| | Illegal Drugs and Drug Trafficking (BP-435E) |
| | (8) Jeffrey Stilkind, Clinton Outlines New Strategy to Combat Illegal Drug Use, United States Information Agency, 29 April 1996. | | | The drug trade is dependent on demand and only by developing preventative strategies that strike at the underlying factors that lead people to use drugs in the first place can we curb drug abuse and trafficking. | | | Drugs have played an important medicinal role in human society, and harmless drugs such as caffeine are widely and legally used in all parts of the globe. The international trade in drugs has a long history; imperial Britain, for example, shaped the 19 |
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http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/bp435-e.htm
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| | John Graham on Prescription Drugs on National Review Online |
| | This free trade needs laws that protect intellectual property and enforce contractual obligations between drug makers, wholesalers, and pharmacies across borders. | | | The wave of popular disgust at high prescription-drug prices in the United States has caused many politicians to propose normalizing the currently illegal "reimporting" of prescription drugs from Canada, where they are often less expensive. | | | Moreover, patent laws are national, and some drugs that are patented in the U.S. are not in Canada (and vice versa). |
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http://nationalreview.com/comment/graham200403290856.asp
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| | Dutch Government Seeks Ban on Foreigners in Coffee Shops |
| | While the town has complained of unruliness around the drug trade, the Venlo Council has gone on record as opposing the ban on foreigners, agreeing with the coffee shop union that it would spark an explosive increase in illegal drug dealing. | | | Please make a generous donation to support Drug War Chronicle in 2005! | | | Prime Minister Balkenende vowed to do as much before he was elected, and his government has given sign after sign it wants to crack down on drugs. |
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http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/309/coffeeshops.shtml
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| | Drug policy : The Netherlands [Illicit drugs and alcohol] |
| | Whilst cannabis is illegal and the drugs sold in the cafes sourced from the illicit drug market, the venues are tolerated by authorities as they believe it reduces the risk of "soft" drug users becoming exposed to harder drugs through interactions with dealers. | | | Drug use in the Netherlands is seen as a normal social problem and illicit drug users as patients in need of treatment and support rather than criminals. | | | Historically, the Netherlands was involved in the trade of opium and coca and it wasn't until 1919 that, mainly due to international pressure, the first efforts to restrict the trade were undertaken. |
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| | Miami Agents Seize Cartoon-Covered Drug Paraphernalia: Top News Stories at Officer.com |
| | The operation is a continuing ICE effort in South Florida to investigate and disrupt the illegal drug trade in the United States by zeroing in on suppliers, wholesalers and resellers. | | | The warehouse operation is suspected of supplying "headshops" nationwide with the tools most used by drug users and dealers. | | | MIAMI -- Federal agents busted a warehouse Monday where they found thousands of pieces of drug paraphernalia, much of it decorated with popular cartoon characters. |
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| | Germany Wary of Dutch Dope Debate Current Affairs Deutsche Welle 27.04.2005 |
| | Any moves to decriminalize the production of cannabis in the Netherlands is likely to cause further friction with Schily unlikely to shift on his stance that the availability of drugs in Holland promotes drug tourism among Germans and, on a wider scale, encourages the illegal drug trade in Europe. | | | After European Union justice ministers announced an agreement on a common cross-border drug policy, the Netherlands exposed a clause in the rules by exercising its right to keep its "coffee shops" open. | | | The German Federal Constitutional Court has reviewed its previous ruling on the possession of cannabis and returned the carrying of small amounts to the criminal realm. |
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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1566743,00.html?maca=en-topstories-83-rdf
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| | NATIONAL DRUG INTELLIGENCE CENTER |
| | In drug investigations, interdiction activities, and especially efforts to dismantle drug trafficking organizations, Federal, State, and local drug enforcement agencies depend on intelligence to understand and effectively combat the illegal drug trade. | | | The NDIC will be under the supervision of the Attorney General, assisted by an Advisory Board comprised of representatives of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and involved Federal Departments, including the Departments of Justice, Treasury, Defense, and Transportation. | | | The NIDC's anlayses will be provided as appropriate to drug enforcement agencies at the Federal, State, and local level. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/1990_cr/s901015-ndic.htm
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| | Government Accountability - Prescription Drug Reimportation: Some Forgotten Fundamentals |
| | Although purchasing prescription drugs outside the United States and bringing them home is often illegal, that does not stop many Americans from considering obtaining their prescription drugs from foreign sources as a low-cost alternative to the domestic market. | | | What will happen to prescription drug prices in the United States if reimportation is legalized? | | | Proponents argue that the drug companies practice of charging different prices in different countries is unfair to the American consumer. |
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| | Nightmare in Idaho |
| | The violence associated with the illegal drug trade is primarily associated with hard, addictive drugs like heroin and cocaine, not the marijuana that Billingsly was selling. | | | The Billingsly case illustrates how Drug Free School Zones are not so much a means of fighting drugs as a tool for prosecutors to further their own political ambitions, at the expense of justice. | | | Billinsgly, when he made his small sale, was in a "Drug Free School Zone", and Idaho law requires that this young boy, for this minor offense, stand trial as an adult. |
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| | International Narcotics Control Board |
| | The goal of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme is to eliminate the illegal drug trade worldwide. | | | "Leading Global Drug Control," the UNDCP publication states: | | | There are significant cultural issues which relate to the problem of drug abuse. |
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| | The New Face of “Peace” in Colombia, by Adam Isacson, January 5, 2004 |
| | In 1991 Pablo Escobar, the boss of Colombias Medellín drug cartel, surrendered to authorities in exchange for captivity in a luxurious one-man jail, where he continued to run his illegal empire. | | | His influence eased the paramilitaries almost seamless merger with the drug trade, a merger so profitable that proceeds from drug shipments to the United States and elsewhere allowed the militias to triple in size from 1998 to 2002. | | | The incident forced the drug lord to flee his gilded cage and to live as a pampered fugitive until police found and killed him a year later. |
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| | illegal drug side effects, illegal drug speed, illegal drug statistics, illegal drug testing, illegal drug trade |
| | illegal drug side effects illegal drug speed illegal drug statistics illegal drug testing illegal drug trade | | | illegal drug side effects, illegal drug speed, illegal drug statistics, illegal drug testing, illegal drug trade | | | Persons with medical conditions such as high blood pressure, heart problems, asthma, diabetes and other viruses, diseases or chronic health problems, and/or taking therapeutic medications of any kind should consult with a physician before using our drug testing products. |
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| | Sun.Star Network Online - Mayor warns 'drug lord' in city to stop trade |
| | Duterte said the wealthy drug lord in Toril was believed to have "mellowed down" from his illegal activity, but an informant who earlier surrendered to authorities confirmed the suspect is still very much into the drug trade. | | | The Communist Party of the Philippines in Mindanao claimed at least two town mayors and several businessmen in Mindanao are reportedly involved in the illegal drug trade. | | | I want to end the illegal drug trade of the big-time drug pushers. |
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http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/net/2003/07/14/mayor.warns.drug.lord.in.city.to.stop.trade.html
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| | CBC North - Drug trade in Nunavik soars to $20 million |
| | Police in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec are asking for help in their fight against the illegal drug trade. | | | Another police source said that over $80,000 left Nunavik in just 10 days as part of the profits of the illegal drug trade. | | | A police report suggests Nunavik residents are generating a drug trade with an estimated street value of $20 million per year. |
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http://north.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=que-nunavikdrugs04062004
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| | 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. | | | The report says the world's illegal drug trade is contributing to the spread of AIDS not only through people sharing needles, but also because drug users -- whether they've injected them or not -- are often more likely to have unprotected sex. | | | UN Office on Drugs and Crime, which says the negative impacts of the drug trade touch every society in the world. |
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| | Manila Standard Today -- Drug trade in Palawan -- October 18, 2005 |
| | A MAYOR from an island-municipality in Palawan yesterday exposed the existence of illegal drug trade between some of his constituents engaged in the underworld business in connivance with shabu manufacturers from Kudarat, Malaysia. | | | Sulani also confirmed that the illegal drug trade in Mangsee was being controlled by drug lords. | | | Sulani made the exposition about the illegal drug trade during the celebration of World Food Day held in the island-municipality some 260 kilometers from Puerto Princesa City, capital of Palawan. |
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| | UNODC - Bulletin on Narcotics - 1983 Issue 2 - 004 |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | 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. |
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| | Sun.Star Davao - Some police officers behind gambling, drugs: Manding |
| | DAVAO City Councilor Amilbangsa T. Manding on Monday appealed for an investigation on reports that some ranking police officials in the city are allegedly protecting illegal activities like "last two," illegal drug trade and sale of pirated compact discs. | | | Manding added that three of the nine illegal drug pushers signified interest to execute affidavit against the police officials who are said to be protectors of illegal activities. | | | Manding said some close associates of the drug pushers themselves were, however, hesitant to tell him about the illegal activities for fear of reprisal. |
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http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/dav/2004/09/01/news/some.police.officers.behind.gambling.drugs.manding.html
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| | Is The Funding Of Terrorism Another Unintended Consequence Of Drug Prohibition? |
| | Drug trade is big business: Illegal Drugs are 8% of all international trade while Textiles are 7.5% and Motor Vehicles are 5.3% | | | "The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden." | | | Could a regulated and controlled model for soft drugs similar to our approach with alcohol and for hard drugs similar to prescription drugs stop the flow of illegal drug profits? |
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| | Criminal Justice Policy Foundation |
| | One quarter of all Amazonian deforestation in the 20th century was a result of the demand of the illegal drug trade. | | | All disputes in the $62.4 billion domestic illegal drug trade are resolved violently. | | | Unfortunately, the environmental consequences of the drug trade are much broader, and are widespread in the United States. |
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| | Jamaica Gleaner - 'Montego Bay centre of illegal drug trade' - Saturday April 30, 2005 |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | 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. |
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| | Reason |
| | Actually, "going after the illegal drug trade" is what allows terrorists to fund their operations with profits inflated by prohibition. | | | "The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden," he explained. | | | Confronting that question does not necessarily mean repealing prohibition (the approach Id prefer), but it does mean taking into account the trade-offs associated with the drug war. |
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| | Sun.Star Network Online - Davao mayor: Death for Chinese druglords |
| | Duterte said the illegal drug trade is so lucrative here in the country that foreign Chinese drug dealers keep on coming to the Philippines. | | | In his television program "Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa" Sunday, Duterte warned drug dealers, especially those from mainland China, never to set up an illegal drug factory in the city. | | | He said not even the government of China could stop him once he gets his hands on those Chinese drug dealers doing trade here. |
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