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| | terrorism and drug prohibition |
 | | Laws prohibiting drugs ("drug prohibition") have enriched criminal organizations around the world by creating an enormously lucrative illegal market ("black market") in drugs. | | | Without prohibition, the drug trade could not finance terrorism to any significant degree, since profits from the legal sale of drugs would be a small fraction of the profits that are generated in the black market created by prohibition. | | | Their involvement in the drug trade takes a number of forms: they may protect the local peasant populations from the "narco-terrorists" or the law enforcement agencies in exchange for a "war tax" that funds their guerrilla activities. |
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| | Comparative Criminology North America - Belize |
| | This act repealed and replaced the Dangerous Drugs Act of 1980, which is deemed inadequate to meet the challenges of the explosive growth in the drug trade during the 1980s. | | | The 1990 legislation provided for the establishment of a National Drug Abuse Control Council, which was to review the current state of Belize's illegal narcotics trade and advise the prime minister on measures to restrict availability, provide for treatment and rehabilitation, educate the public, and advise farmers on alternate crops. | | | Belize is a parliamentary democracy with a constitution enacted in 1981 upon independence from the United Kingdom. |
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http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/namerica/belize.html
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| | Pharmacists Effective In Curbing New Zealand's Drug Trade |
| | By curbing the sale of cold and flu remedies to criminals, pharmacists have forced illegal drug makers to use the Internet for purchasing their ingredients and bringing the illegal drugs into the country. | | | Under the program, anyone caught using over-the-counter drugs containing pseudoephedrine to make an illegal drug are prosecuted under the Misuse of Drugs Act. | | | A program in New Zealand that involves pharmacists has been effective in curbing the amphetamine trade, the New Zealand Press reported Sept. 27. |
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http://www.jointogether.org/gv/news/summaries/reader/0,2061,567190,00.html
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| | Parents Against Lethal Addictive Drugs |
| | If legal drugs are more dangerous than illegal ones, then why doesn't the ACMD recommend to Government that these more dangerous drugs should also be regulated under the Misuse of Drugs Act? | | | PALAD believes the consultation is an opportunity to integrate drugs misuse policy and so implement recent policies of social exclusion, informed choice, free trade and evidence-based assessment, in addition to integration policies. | | | "1.2 The Council is established under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 to keep under review the drug situation in the United Kingdom and to advise government ministers on the measures to be taken for preventing the misuse of drugs or for dealing with the social problems connected with their misuse. |
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http://www.geocities.com/paladcampaign/acmd.htm
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| | Illegal drug trade Information - TextSheet.com |
| | 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. | | | As with legal commerce, the illegal drug trade is multi-layered and often multi-national, with layers of manufacturers, processors, distributors, wholesalers and retailers. |
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http://www.jaxx.sferahost.com/encyclopedia/i/il/illegal_drug_trade.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% | | | 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? | | | "The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden." |
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http://www.csdp.org/ads/narcofund.htm
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| | Opao barangay councilman nabbed for illegal drug trade |
| | Ernesto was quoted to have said that his son was involved in the trade of illegal drugs apparently because he has not been able to find a decent job after finishing Nautical school. | | | A councilman of barangay Opao was arrested on suspicions of illegal drugs trade on Tuesday at about 11 in the evening. | | | Judge Meinrado Paredes of Regional Trial Court Branch 13 issued the search warrant when residents of barangay Opao complained that the Naparetes are allegedly involved in illegal drugs trafficking and that their home is often used as a place where pot sessions are done. |
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| | Encyclopedia article on Illegal drug trade [EncycloZine] |
| | As with legal commerce, the illegal drug trade is multi-layered and often multi-national, with layers of manufacturers, processors, distributors, wholesalers and retailers. | | | When tobacco products such as name-brand cigarettes are traded illegally, the cost is as little as one third that of retail price due to the lack of taxes being piled on as the product is sold from manufacturer to buyer to retailer. | | | Some prescription drugs are also available by illegal means, eliminating the need to manufacture and process the drugs. |
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| | Erowid Psychoactive Vaults : Prohibition & Terrorism : Does Smoking Cannabis Really Support Terrorism? |
| | While "open legalization" may not be the best public policy -- no one knows what the best public policy is -- if the problem drugs were provided to addicts through regulated and controlled sales, a huge portion of the profits available from the illegal market sale of psychoactives would be taken away. | | | There is little question that the only reason that criminal organizations can profit from the sale of illegal drugs is the fact that they are illegal. | | | The ONDCP does not supply an analysis of what portion of the cocaine trade ends up supporting groups which divert the money into weapons and fighting, but it is clear that some portion of the cocaine trade profits end up supporting war efforts around the world. |
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| | cannabisnews.com: How Victory in the Drug War Has Left Colombia |
| | 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. | | | In the same way, many are now saying, Colombia's woes are fuelled not by drugs but by illegal drugs. |
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http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread6948.shtml
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| | JS Online: Illegal prescription drug trade growing |
| | Part One: The American system of regulating and distributing prescription drugs is undercut by a shadow market that takes advantage of technology, global trade, vast disparities in pharmaceutical prices and the self-medicating habits of aging baby boomers. | | | The shadow market takes advantage of technology, global trade, vast disparities in pharmaceutical prices, the explosive growth of enticing new miracle drugs and the self-medicating habits of an aging baby-boom population. | | | But the increasing recalls of tainted medicines, overdoses on Internet-bought drugs and the cross-border pharmaceutical trade are part of a larger pattern. |
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http://www.jsonline.com/alive/news/oct03/178437.asp?format=print
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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. | | | Illegal drugs can be broken down into two major classes: those extracted from plants, such as cannabis and cocaine, and those synthesized in a laboratory, such as MDMA and methamphetamine. | | | 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. |
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| | Duncan Cameron PALAD, Orana, Heol Esgob, St |
| | Legal drugs, such as tobacco and alcohol, are responsible for far greater damage both to individual health and to the social fabric in general than illegal ones". | | | PALAD believes the consultation is an opportunity to integrate drugs misuse policy and so implement recent policies of social exclusion, informed choice, free trade and evidence-based assessment, in addition to integration policies. | | | We hold the view - as does ASH and Alcohol Concern - that currently legal drugs are under-regulated and illegal drugs are over-regulated. |
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| | According to Criminal Justice Director McKoy, the covert aspect of the ongoing investigation ended with the issuance of arrest warrants for 19 individuals identified as members or associates of the “Bloods” street gang, participants in the illegal drug trade, or purchasers of illegal drugs. | | | Law Enforcement throughout Union County will continue to target street gangs and the illegal drug trade,” Romankow said. | | | It is charged that Burns actively recruited members for the “Bloods” in Linden, Roselle, and Rahway and that monies obtained from the sale of the illegal drugs were allegedly used to purchase weapons and to finance the operation of the local chapter of the “Bloods.” |
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http://www.state.nj.us/oag/dcj/releases/2005/printer/burns_printer_0729.htm
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| | Sun.Star Davao - Mayor clears name of Taiwanese businessman |
| | DAVAO City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte virtually cleared Taiwanese businessman Charlie Tan from involvement in illegal drugs after another local paper stood by its report on Tan's alleged involvement in the illegal activity. | | | The Sun.Star article last January 24 carried Tan's contention that he is alive but sought out Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency 11 chief Wilkins Villanueva's take on Tan's alleged involvement in illegal drugs. | | | Asked if Tan personally asked for help to clear his name on his alleged involvement on illegal drugs, Duterte said the businessman never approached him for any help. |
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| | The Anti-Trust Casebook |
| | The court decided that it is not the job of the court to decide what price levels are reasonable and that any naked restraint of trade such as this is illegal even if the firms don't fully exert their market power. | | | First, since the stated goal of the holding company is to increase efficiency in the coal industry through economies of scale in sales, distribution, storage, advertising, and RandD, the court must decide on the reasonableness of this ancillary restraint of trade rather than being able to declare a naked restraint of trade illegal per se. | | | The court said that while Tampa's contract with Nashfield called for Tampa to purchase all of their coal from Nashfield, an exclusive dealing arrangement, contracts of this type were illegal only if they foreclosed a significant portion of the market to competition. |
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| | Illegal drug trade - Wikipedia |
| | The high levels of greed, and the pre-existing illegality of the trade, make the participants at every level of the illegal drugs industry liable to compete with one another through violence. | | | However, it is much easier to control traffic in prescription drugs than in illegal drugs. | | | Some prescription drugs[?] are also available by illegal means, eliminating the need to manufacture and process the drugs. |
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Illegal drug trade - Encyclopedia Article |
| | In jurisdictions where certain addictive drugs are illegal, they are generally supplied by criminal drug dealers, often in the form of organized crime. | | | However, it is much easier to control traffic in prescription drugs than in illegal drugs. | | | Some prescription drugs are also available by illegal means, eliminating the need to manufacture and process the drugs. |
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| | WorldNetDaily: Drugging the Mafia |
| | Legal drugs would also remove organized criminals from the trade. | | | While crime in the U.S. has been falling for a decade, the reality is that the rates are still propped up by the illicit drug trade, a trade made violent by its illegal status and the type of people who prosper in prohibited trades nasty men like Lucky Luciano. | | | Ever since the Harrison Act in 1914, narcotics have been illegal in the U.S., and criminals have sold them. |
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| | Illegal drug trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The illegal trade of tobacco is motivated primarily by increasingly heavy taxation. | | | 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. | | | Some prescription drugs are also available by illegal means, eliminating the need to manufacture and process the drugs. |
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| | Asia Times Online :: South Asia news, business and economy from India and Pakistan |
| | 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. | | | 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. |
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| | Country Winning the Fight against Illegal Drug Trade - Phillips - Jamaica Information Service |
| | 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. |
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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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| | 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. | | | Since the late 1990s, regional police and the RCMP have worked together to curb the sale of illegal drugs into Nunavik. |
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| | The Manila Times Internet Edition REGIONS > Illegal drug substance invades Apayao |
| | Among the towns where illegal drug trade has “doubled” are Ballesteros and Claveria in the northwest and Buguey, Aparri and Santa Ana in northeast, according to reports. | | | Rodolfo Anagaran, provincial police director of Apayao, told The Manila Times that illegal drugs were being transported to lower Apayao from Ballesteros, Cagayan and Laoag City in Ilocos Norte. | | | tc "Among the towns where illegal drug trade has “doubled” are Ballesteros and Claveria in the northwest and Buguey, Aparri and Santa Ana in northeast, according to reports." |
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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% | | | 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? | | | United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, "Economic and Social Consequences of Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking" (New York, NY: UN Drug Control Program, 1998), p. |
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| | Illicit Drugs - Introduction |
| | Initially the illegal armed organizations’ involvement in the drugs business was limited to granting protection to major areas of illicit crops owned by drug barons, but gradually they went on taking over the local trade of cocaine and heroine, which helped increase the net production of drugs. | | | Drug trafficking in Colombia has also supplied a generous and stable source of financing to illegal armed groups, which has made it possible for them to increase its ranks, to gain access to the illegal arms market and to expand the reach of their armed activities. | | | The problem of illicit drugs has damaging effects on democratic governance in so far as it adds to the intensification of armed violence, the deterioration of the economy and the weakening of Government institutions and of societal values and confidence. |
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| | Illegal Drugs and Drug Trafficking (BP-435E) |
| | 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 | | | (8) Jeffrey Stilkind, Clinton Outlines New Strategy to Combat Illegal Drug Use, United States Information Agency, 29 April 1996. |
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| | Columbia: Drug Smugglers Up the Ante |
| | What should the U.S. government do to attempt to hinder the drug trade and the flow of illegal drugs across its borders? | | | Smugglers have long developed methods for secretly transporting illegal drugs, and have even used high-priced modified Boeing 727s that allow them to escape radar detection. | | | Less sophisticated methods of smuggling illicit drugs include hollowing out the heels of shoes, using false-bottomed suitcases, and packing the drugs with other, legitimate exports. |
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