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Items tagged with eradication

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Back to Business as Usual as Peru Loses Progressive Drug Czar Despite promising signs that Peru’s new president was ready to take a fresh approach to drug policy, focused on attacking traffickers and not coca f...
Cocaine's becoming king in Peru For years, Peru had a simple policy to fight cocaine: destroy the coca plants that were the key ingredient in the drug. It did not go so well. That ha...
Drug Policy in the Andes Fifty years after signing the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and 40 years after the U.S. government declared a "war on drugs,...
Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 20...
Latin America needs a new drug policy approach Friday, 2 May 2008 TNI’s Martin Jelsma participated in the inaugural meeting in Rio de Janeiro of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democrac...
Peru replaces drug czar who de-emphasized coca plant eradication, saying it hurt poor growers Peru’s government on Tuesday replaced its drug czar, whose refusal to endorse an all-out coca crop eradication effort put him at odds with the Cabin...
Peru’s New Drug Chief: Country “Let Down Its Guard” in Eradication The outspoken Ricardo Soberon was head of Devidafor about five months and was in favor of a stronger intervention in drug policies by his institutio...
Political Declaration already ridiculed News about the disappointing content of the Political Declaration to be adopted at the High Level Segment of the 52nd Commission on Narcotic Drugs (...
War Without End An extraordinary documentary marking a new level in broadcast journalism critiquing the international war on drugs was shown on Irish TV last on 3 Jun...
Withdrawal Symptoms Drug control agencies have called the significant decline in opium production in Southeast Asia over the past decade a 'success story'. The ...

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Count the Costs

The war on drugs creates massive costs, resulting from the enforcement-led approach that puts organised crime in control of the trade. It is time to count these costs and explore the alternatives.

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