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| | Illegal drug trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Many in the drugs field do not find the hard/soft drug distinction useful, acknowledging that it is the drug using behaviors that are the most important determinate of harm, not the choice of drug: all drugs can be harmful if misused. | | | 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. | | | Some prescription drugs are also available by illegal means, eliminating the need to manufacture and process the drugs. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_trafficking
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| | Because the type of drug or drugs ingested varies and use patterns also vary, some users are more vulnerable than others to addiction. | | | 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. | | | Synthetic estimation techniques could be used to generate figures on nationwide drug use by arrestees, but such techniques are beyond the scope of this report. |
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http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles1/nij/189101.txt
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| | Drug Trafficking in Mexico - Discussion Paper 36 |
| | These concern in particular the historical sociology of the phenomenon in the country, the U.S.A.-Mexico relations on drug issues, the subculture of drug trafficking, drug use, and the dynamics of the relationship between drug traffickers and political power. | | | There were obviously different levels of perception about the need to control drug trafficking and the seriousness of the drug control politics. | | | A new social category was born: the drug trafficker. |
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http://www.unesco.org/most/astorga.htm
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| | DEA Briefs & Background, Drugs and Drug Abuse, Drug Descriptions, Drug Trafficking in the United States |
| | Israeli and Russian drug trafficking syndicates and Western Europe-based drug traffickers are the principal traffickers of MDMA worldwide. | | | In a particularly noteworthy seizure of approximately 24 kilograms of heroin in New York in May 2000, 90 percent of the seized heroin consisted of SWA heroin, and the remaining 10 percent was SEA. | | | While avoiding the stigma of needle use, this user group is ingesting larger quantities of the drug and, according to drug treatment specialists, progressing more quickly toward addiction. |
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http://www.dea.gov/concern/drug_trafficking.html
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| | Mexican Drug Traffickers: A Byproduct of Poor Border Security - Jim Kouri - MensNewsDaily.com™ |
| | 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. | | | Whatever the method, traffickers have employed numerous and diverse methods to avoid detection of transported drugs. | | | A second lesson is that bilateral and multilateral efforts are key in the crusade against drugs. |
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http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/k/kouri/2004/kouri122104.htm
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| | Government insiders and former drug traffickers reveal government's involvement in drugs. |
| | Drugging America is a literal college course on understanding the inner secrets of the government’s arrogant and sham war on drugs. | | | Understand how this misconduct by people in control of key government offices have caused or made possible great harm upon the people in many areas, often on sham or greatly exaggerated drug charges, or upon being set up, or through the use of perjury and bought testimony. | | | Make this insider information available to as many people as possible, and possibly make them aware of the serious Trojan horse type of misconduct that has continued for decades, and which is responsible for some of the harm and threat of harm facing Americans today. |
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http://www.druggingamerica.com/index_drugging_right.html
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| | E-Commerce News: News: Report: Internet a Mecca for Drug Traffickers |
| | The INCB does not believe that drug traffickers are ignorant of the law. | | | The news that the Internet is being used by drug traffickers comes as no surprise to U.S. federal and state officials, who have been aggressive in cracking down on dot-coms that deal drugs without a prescription. | | | The report said that some online pharmacies "explicitly" advertise that they provide drugs without prescriptions, or that the pharmacy will issue the prescription on order. |
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/7670.html
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| | Russia's New Drug Law in Effect: No Jail for Drug Users, Greater Penalties for Drug Traffickers |
| | Penalties for large-scale drug sales, production, or trafficking, on the other hand, will be increased. | | | As of today, Russian drug users and people in possession of small amounts of illegal drugs no longer face any jail time. | | | "This is prompted by the drug situation that has arisen in our country over the past decade," Gryzlov said. |
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http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/328/russia.shtml
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| | Drug traffickers wreak havoc in Haiti |
| | One of the most active drug bazaars is around the block from their second-floor | | | ``Haiti is ready to set up the mechanism to bring to trial all drug traffickers,'' | | | ``You can get as much drugs as you want here,'' Louisdhon said. |
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http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/haiti/havoc.htm
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| | Medical pot raids help drug traffickers |
| | Their objective is supposed to be chasing drug traffickers who sell dangerous drugs such as methamphetamines and heroin to children. | | | Her desire for dignity is what brought Williams and her sister out to Tuesday's rally, which was called to protest federal drug agents' stepped-up crackdown on medicinal-marijuana clubs and patients certified to use the otherwise illegal drug under a doctor's care for documented medical purposes. | | | Every time Ashcroft and the DEA go after medical marijuana users, life gets a little easier on traffickers in methamphetamines and heroin. |
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http://www.maps.org/media/sacbee9.21.02.html
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| | Elder - The New Drug Traffickers |
| | Many of them, like Gagnon, are looking for expensive heart drugs, such as Cardura--also known by its generic name, doxazosin--or an antihypertensive ACE inhibitor like Zestril. | | | "I had to skip my drugs, and I had a lot of pain," she said. | | | 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. |
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http://www.asaging.org/at/at-213/elder-drug.html
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| | TP: Kosovo »Freedom Fighters« Financed By Organised Crime |
| | In turn the financial proceeds of the trade in drugs and arms were recycled towards other illicit activities (and vice versa) including a vast prostitution racket between Albania and Italy. | | | Albania is also a key point of transit of the Balkans drug route which supplies Western Europe with grade four heroin. | | | 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"... |
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http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/2/2743/1.html
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| | frontline: drug wars: business: inside the drug traffickers' world PBS |
| | He became addicted to the drug and served time in prison and drug rehabilitation. | | | frontline: drug wars: business: inside the drug traffickers' world | | | Now clean of drugs, he is working in the computer field. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/business/inside
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| | DEA - Publications - Briefing Book - Major Traffickers & Their Organizations |
| | The method brought the traffickers profits beyond their dreams and led to the foundation of the Medellin Cartel. | | | Although a prominent Cali trafficker, he is not viewed as a principal leader of the Cali drug mafia. | | | Mexican drug traffickers have long been engaged in heroin, marijuana and cocaine trafficking. |
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http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/dea/pubs/briefing/2_8.htm
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| | Burmese and Chinese drug traffickers arrested in India |
| | Burmese and Chinese drug traffickers arrested in India | | | The Burmese Junta recently claimed that drug trafficking had been strongly reduced in the wake of stepped-up operations by the government. | | | Kolkata is reportedly fast emerging as a new center for this drug peddling. |
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http://www.mizzima.com/archives/news-in-2003/news-in-may/23-may03-29.htm
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| | Drug traffickers live in burbs, deal in Detroit - 05/17/04 |
| | The federal complaint also said a confidential informant told the DEA in December that Hodges and another man were offering $30,000 to White to have Ivan Cannon, a rival drug dealer, murdered. | | | “Whether that drug trafficker is living in a nice neighborhood, not dealing there, the drug money is still there.” | | | 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. |
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http://www.detnews.com/2004/metro/0405/17/c01-154903.htm
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| | americas.org - Drug Traffickers Bought Bank |
| | All have denied any knowledge of drug cartel influences in the troubled bank. | | | 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. | | | The real owners were discovered after Finance Ministry regulators detected fraud at the bank some 19 months later and put the bank under central control. |
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http://www.americas.org/item_11585
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| | 11 drug traffickers executed |
| | "Yet no convincing evidence has ever been produced that the death penalty deters would-be traffickers and users more effectively than any other punishment." | | | Problems with drug addiction have soared in recent years and China regularly announces large seizures of heroin, opium and other illicit narcotics. | | | 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. |
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http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1548348,00.html
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| | ARE DRUG TRAFFICKERS FINANCING US GOVERNMENT DEBT? - Gold & Silver Forum |
| | In fact, what we are looking at here is a DEAL, a TRADE-OFF. | | | In the same way, the US government does not mind at all that billions of its debt are bought by drug traffickers. | | | Such protection involves, among other things, terminating major, major drug busts before they happen. |
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http://www.goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=16971
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| | Dissent: Why drug traffickers love free trade |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | Once drug money has been "layered" through multiple financial transactions in several countries, its origins are virtually untraceable. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3745/is_199707/ai_n8760131
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| | DanceSafe: Philippines: Mayor Warns Drug Traffickers Anew |
| | This includes the arrest of scores of drug pushers and apprehension of drug dependents. | | | Alcuizar also added that there has been a decline in the number of apprehensions lately in which he attributed to their intensified drive against illegal drug activities. | | | DanceSafe.org : Raves and Club Drugs in the News : Philippines: Mayor Warns Drug Traffickers Anew |
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http://www.mapinc.org/safe/v04/n1624/a03.html
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| | Patriot Act Being Used To Investigate Drug Traffickers JoinTogether.org |
| | Patriot Act Being Used To Investigate Drug Traffickers | | | Patriot Act Being Used To Investigate Drug Traffickers | | | 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. |
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http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/summaries/reader/0,1854,567051,00.html
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| | WorldNetDaily: Drug traffickers move on Panama |
| | The home has been described as the drug dealer's "retreat." | | | 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. | | | In fact, Colombian drug dealers have been moving their families to isolated outskirts of Panama City in recent years, and have become very difficult to detect. |
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http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17364
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| | 8 suspected drug traffickers arrested - Jul. 03, 2003 |
| | "They were suspected drug traffickers but we will try to find out why they were keeping explosives," he said. | | | "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. |
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http://www.inq7.net/reg/2003/jul/03/reg_4-1.htm
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| | 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. | | | CIA Central American Task Force Chief Alan Fiers testified during the hearings: "With respect to [drug trafficking by] the Resistance Forces...it is not a couple of people. | | | North's diaries weren't the only evidence of Contra drug involvement that came out as a result of the Iran-Contra hearings. |
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http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/total_coverage/coke.html
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| | Ex-troops aiding drug traffickers - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - February 24, 2005 |
| | Ex-troops aiding drug traffickers - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - February 24, 2005 | | | "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. | | | Texas law-enforcement authorities think a squad of Zeta members, as many as 10, might be operating inside that state as assassins for the infamous Gulf drug cartel. |
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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050224-123713-6092r.htm
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| | cannabisnews.com: List Targets Top Drug Traffickers |
| | The Clinton administration's newest weapon in the drug war is a financial blacklist of major foreign drug traffickers and their associates. | | | Supporters of the law note that it was modeled after a 1995 executive order that gave the government the power to penalize Colombian drug traffickers and their associates. | | | Those on the drug kingpin list would have their U.S. assets frozen in most cases. |
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| | Drug Enforcement Administration Home |
| | Clark has been able to maintain his organization through the use of intimidation and violence and is thought to be associated with numerous murders. | | | 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. | | | (Detroit, MI) – Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Robert L. Corso, today announced the arrest of Anthony Michael Clark, the ringleader of a powerful, Detroit based, drug trafficking organization (DTO), which has operated in the Detroit area for more than 15 years. |
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| | FT.com / World / Asia-Pacific - Afghanistan considers amnesty for drug traffickers |
| | Afghan officials said the government needed to ponder unorthodox approaches to combat an industry that has ballooned over the past three years, awarding huge means to drug traffickers that overshadow those of the government that is trying to fight them. | | | FT.com / World / Asia-Pacific - Afghanistan considers amnesty for drug traffickers | | | The Afghan government is considering the possibility of offering amnesty to local drug traffickers as part of its new strategy to fight the opium trade, senior Afghan and western officials in Kabul said. |
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| | Drug traffickers on new high |
| | It’s an injection called Buphrenorphine, and it is fast becoming a hot favourite among drug traffickers. | | | Each ampoule costs around Rs 13 (as medication) in India, which is then sold for up to Rs 1,000 in the international market. | | | In most cases carriers take the consignment by concealing them in their luggage to Dubai. |
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| | Submarine for drug traffickers found in Colombia |
| | 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. | | | It is believed the Northern Valle cartel, which prospered after the Cali cartel lost its footing a decade ago, was responsible for building the submarine. |
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| | Sudanese authorities arrest drug traffickers |
| | The police have arrested 9 drug traffickers in Um Darman following a two-month campaign to fight drug trafficking. | | | The sources added that during the campaign the police also confiscated automatic machine-guns, adding the drugs were on their way to the capital, Khartoum from areas in the west and southwest of the country. | | | The Sudanese daily al-Anba' issued on Wednesday said that Sudanese security forces recently confiscated a half ton of Marijuana, estimated at a value of US $400 million in Um Darman region. |
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http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/980213/1998021303.html
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| | Janet Reno on Crime |
| | Focus on prevention and early intervention efforts to keep children away from gangs, drugs and violence and on the road to strong, healthy and self-sufficient lives. | | | She criticized mandatory sentencing for nonviolent offenses and advocated alternative sentences to permit the use of prison cells for dangerous offenders and persistent recidivists as well as major drug traffickers. | | | Reduce crime and violence by incarcerating serious, repeat offenders and finding alternative forms of punishment for first time, non-violent offenders. |
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http://www.ontheissues.org/Governor/Janet_Reno_Crime.htm
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| | MEXICAN JOURNALIST / DRUG TRAFFICKERS |
| | DATE=6/10/98 TYPE=BACKGROUND REPORT NUMBER=5-40651 TITLE=MEXICAN JOURNALIST / DRUG TRAFFICKERS BYLINE=GREG FLAKUS DATELINE=MEXICO CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: MEXICO'S NORTHWEST STATE OF BAJA CALIFORNIA DEL NORTE HAS BECOME A PRINCIPAL ZONE OF CONFLICT IN THE WAR AGAINST DRUG SMUGGLING. | | | IN THE BORDER CITY OF TIJUANA, ONE CRUSADING JOURNALIST CONTINUES HIS FIGHT AGAINST THE DRUG SMUGGLERS EVEN THOUGH HE WAS NEARLY KILLED IN AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT SEVERAL MONTHS AGO. | | | BLANCORNELAS BELIEVES THE GUNMEN WERE HIRED BY THE ARELLANO-FELIX DRUG TRAFFICKING GANG, WHICH LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES DESCRIBE AS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND VICIOUS ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING IN MEXICO. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/1998/06/980610-mex2.htm
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