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Issues / Drugs
Poppies are the go-to crop for many Afghan farmers. Here's a way to change that.
The United States' ill-conceived war on drugs has failed at home and failed in Colombia. As columnist Laura Carlsen explains, Mexico is up next.
Colombia is full of drugs, guns, and human rights violations. Why is the United States still giving it military aid?
Bolivia is in the grips of its worst political crisis and social upheaval since the end of the dictatorships in 1983, while U.S.-imposed economic and antidrug policies are principal reasons for the current conflicts.
Drug crop eradication has produced little effect on the price or availability of cocaine in the United States.
The U.S. is pushing a negotiating agenda for the FTAA that would dramatically limit each country’s ability to undertake compulsory licensing, an important tool to promote generic competition.
Drug profits moving through the U.S. financial system are estimated to be as high as $100 billion a year.
U.S. antidrug policy has had racist overtones and is driven by political opportunism, not by considerations of effectiveness or justice.
Violence and warfare in Colombia are often blamed on the drug trade, but their roots run much deeper and go back well over five decades.