Home | Community | Message Board


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Extract   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order   Kraken Kratom Kratom Capsules for Sale   OlympusMyco.com Olympus Myco Bulk Substrate   Myyco.com Isolated Cubensis Liquid Culture For Sale   Mushroom-Hut Mono Tub Substrate   Bridgetown Botanicals Bridgetown Botanicals   MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck   North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   Original Sensible Seeds Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
InvisibleGreen_T
 User Gallery

Registered: 10/02/08
Posts: 4,042
Loc: UK Flag
EU faces new frontiers on drug trafficking
    #13464336 - 11/10/10 04:16 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

EU faces new frontiers on drug trafficking
November 10 2010 - Financial Times

Elaborate methods of smuggling cocaine and a record number of new unregulated drugs are challenging drug control policies in Europe, where about 1,000 cocaine-related deaths are reported a year, according to the European Union’s drug agency.

Traffickers are increasingly using exports such as clothes, plastics and fertilisers to smuggle cocaine base which is then extracted in clandestine laboratories, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction said on Wednesday.

A number of these “secondary extraction” labs have been detected in Spain – 25 in 2008 – together with the UK, Denmark, Ireland and Italy, the countries where cocaine use is most prevalent.

In the UK, the number of death certificates citing cocaine doubled from 161 in 2003 to 325 in 2008, according to Lisbon-based EMCDDA, which collects and analyses information for European policymakers.

“Too many Europeans still regard cocaine use as a relatively harmless accompaniment to a successful lifestyle,” said Wolfgang Götz, the agency’s director. “We must convey that the use of this drug can also result in fatalities, even when intake is occasional and doses are low.”

A record number of new unregulated drugs known as “legal highs” were also testing drug control policies, the agency said in its annual report.

Twenty-four new psychoactive substances were officially reported for the first time, double the number in 2008. A further 31 new substances have been reported in 2010.

Online marketing of these synthetic compounds presented a growing problem for policymakers, the agency said. This included the rise of products such as “Spice”, smoked herbal highs containing synthetic psychoactive substances whose levels are changed in response to control measures.

In early 2010, 170 online retailers were identified as selling legal highs and hallucinogenic mushrooms, the EMCDDA said.

New trends were also evident in cannabis production, with organised criminals increasingly focusing on large-scale cultivation close to intended markets in Europe as an alternative to smuggling the drug across borders.

“The public often perceives domestic cannabis production as a pot plant on a windowsill or a few plants in a greenhouse,” said Mr Götz. “But the reality is very different.” Extensive cultivation by drug gangs was leading to increased violence and criminality in urban communities.

Cannabis remained the most widely used drug in Europe, with about 75.5m, or 22.5 per cent, of European adults estimated to have used the drug at least once in their life and 23m during the previous year. This was followed by cocaine, used by an estimated 14m, or 4.1 per cent, of Europeans in their lifetime, 4m in the previous year.

Opioid use, mostly heroin, was not diminishing in Europe and accounted for about 85 per cent of drug-related deaths, which have been increasingly steadily in most European countries, the agency said.

Drug-induced deaths in the EU and Norway were estimated at 7,371 in 2008, compared with 7,021 in 2007.

Heroin use in Russia and Ukraine was two to four times higher than the EU average and about 40 per cent of the 2m hard drug users in the two countries were estimated to be HIV positive.

“This is not just a public health disaster for the countries concerned, it also represents a sizeable threat for the European Union,” said Joao Goulão, chairman of the EMCDDA.


--------------------

"I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" - Thomas Jefferson

Legalize Meth | Drug War Victims

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineNibin
Getting there
Male User Gallery


Registered: 11/29/05
Posts: 4,480
Last seen: 11 years, 10 days
Re: EU faces new frontiers on drug trafficking [Re: Green_T]
    #13464651 - 11/10/10 05:12 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

Green_T said:
EU faces new frontiers on drug trafficking


A record number of new unregulated drugs known as “legal highs” were also testing drug control policies, the agency said in its annual report.

Twenty-four new psychoactive substances were officially reported for the first time, double the number in 2008. A further 31 new substances have been reported in 2010.

Online marketing of these synthetic compounds presented a growing problem for policymakers, the agency said. This included the rise of products such as “Spice”, smoked herbal highs containing synthetic psychoactive substances whose levels are changed in response to control measures.






Which is why countries should legalize the substances that have been used for thousands of years and have been show to have few long term side effects (i.e. cannabis and cubensis) so that all these substitutes that we do not know what effects they can have are not needed and will not be bought.

If you could grow a few plants for private consumption, would you bother to go out and buy "herbal substitutes"?


--------------------
Newcomers guide-----> For all things shroomy

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offline2859558484
Growery is Better
 User Gallery


Registered: 01/10/06
Posts: 8,752
Last seen: 3 years, 8 months
Re: EU faces new frontiers on drug trafficking [Re: Green_T]
    #13464661 - 11/10/10 05:14 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

what is a drug related death?


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisibledressel11
Stranger
 User Gallery

Registered: 11/17/04
Posts: 407
Loc: Milky Way
Re: EU faces new frontiers on drug trafficking [Re: 2859558484]
    #13465661 - 11/10/10 08:35 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

any death where they can find any mention of drugs in the persons recent life regardless of if it actually caused the death.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Extract   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order   Kraken Kratom Kratom Capsules for Sale   OlympusMyco.com Olympus Myco Bulk Substrate   Myyco.com Isolated Cubensis Liquid Culture For Sale   Mushroom-Hut Mono Tub Substrate   Bridgetown Botanicals Bridgetown Botanicals   MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck   North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   Original Sensible Seeds Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* WTO Gives EU Drug Trafficking Deadline Annom 1,078 0 09/21/04 05:31 AM
by Annom
* Drug Trafficking and Terror MOTH 1,933 3 09/15/04 09:03 AM
by mitemouse
* Drug Trafficking: Nigerian Sentenced to Death in Pakistan motamanM 2,577 4 10/01/06 08:14 AM
by motaman
* All drugs decriminalised in Russia including dealing MetaShroom 2,218 6 05/28/04 12:55 AM
by matts
* Minister's assistant, 7 others charged with drug offences AnnoA 1,103 0 09/17/04 05:32 AM
by Anno
* Drug Abuse And Crime: Siamese Twins? AnnoA 2,012 0 03/13/04 12:41 AM
by Anno
* American and Canadian Officials Bust Drug Ring snatchcakes 2,300 1 04/01/04 08:02 AM
by vladk
* U.S. backs plan to bring down drug planes motamanM 2,191 3 08/23/03 09:15 PM
by socratesmind

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: motaman, veggie, Alan Rockefeller, Mostly_Harmless
797 topic views. 0 members, 7 guests and 3 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.018 seconds spending 0.006 seconds on 14 queries.