Saturday, 28. September 2002
Topic: - on September 28, 2002 at 2:17:07 AM CEST
War against drugs just isn't working
What do the following items have in common?
• We have embarked on yet another attempt to eradicate the coca crop in Colombia, a country beset by civil war.
• Law enforcement drew a direct link recently between terrorism and the drug trade, moving beyond those ill-reasoned TV spots and arresting suspects in the Midwest who were allegedly funneling proceeds to terrorist groups.
The simplistic view is that drugs, of course, connect all these items. What really connects them, however, is the black market in drugs.
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