Drug Economies of the Americas

ONLINE RESOURCES FOR RESEARCHING THE DRUG INDUSTRY The International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) http://www.state ...

In the Americas, the production and sale of illicit drugs generates tens of billions of dollars a year—perhaps far more ...

When the movie Traffic burst onto U.S. movie screens in December 2000, the pundits were unanimous: By confronting a difficult ...

Economist Pierre Salama has listed the problems that the study of the production, distribution and use of drugs presents for ...

In many parts of the Americas, the U.S.-led consensus about the “war on drugs” is beginning to fray. This is ...

Colombia’s drug industry is the most complete and diversified in the world: Colombia is the world’s only important producer of ...

Although Mexican President Vicente Fox last year made brief comments suggesting drug legalization may be the ultimate solution, and his ...

Mexico is, according to the U.S. State Department, “a major supplier of heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana” for the U.S. market ...