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luvdemshrooms
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International 'war' on illegal drugs is failing to curb supply
#18916885 - 10/01/13 03:43 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Finally some good news!
International 'war' on illegal drugs is failing to curb supply
The international war on illegal drugs is failing to curb supply, despite the increasing amounts of resource being ploughed into law enforcement activities, finds research published in the online journal BMJ Open.
Since 1990, the street price of illegal drugs has fallen in real terms while the purity/potency of what's on offer has generally increased, both of which are indicators of availability.
The United Nations recently estimated that the illicit drug trade is worth at least US $350 billion every year. And needle sharing is one of the key drivers of blood borne infections, including HIV. The drug trade is also linked to high rates of violence.
Over the past several decades most national drug control strategies have focused on law enforcement to curb supply, despite calls to explore approaches, such as decriminalisation and strict legal regulation.
The researchers analysed data from seven international government-funded drug surveillance systems, which had at least 10 years of information on the price and purity of cannabis, cocaine and opiates, including heroin.
They also reviewed the number of seizures of illegal drugs in drug production regions and rates of consumption in markets where demand for illegal drugs is high.
Three of the seven surveillance systems reported on international data; three reported on US data; and one reported on data from Australia. In some cases the data went back as far as 1975, with the most recent data going back to 2001.
Three major trends emerged from the data analysis: the purity/potency of illegal drugs either generally remained stable or increased between 1990 and 2010; with few exceptions, the street price generally fell; and seizures of drugs increased in both the countries of major supply and demand.
In the US, after adjusting for inflation and purity, the average street price of heroin, cocaine and cannabis fell by 81%, 80%, and 86%, respectively, whereas the purity and/or potency of these drugs increased by 60%, 11%, and 161%, respectively.
Similar trends were observed in Europe where, during the same period, the average price of opiates and cocaine, adjusted for inflation and purity, decreased by 74% and 51%, respectively, and in Australia, where the price of cocaine fell by 14% and the price of heroin and cannabis dropped by 49%.
In the US seizures of cocaine roughly halved between 1990 and 2010, but those of cannabis and heroin rose by 465% and 29%, respectively; in Europe seizures of cocaine and cannabis fluctuated, but seizures of heroin had risen 380% by 2009.
On the basis of the data, the authors conclude, as previous studies have, "that the global supply of illicit drugs has likely not been reduced in the previous two decades."
They add: "In particular, the data presented in this study suggest that the supply of opiates and cannabis have increased, given the increasing potency and decreasing prices of these illegal commodities."
And they conclude: "These findings suggest that expanding efforts at controlling the global illegal drug market through law enforcement are failing."
"It is hoped that this study highlights the need to re-examine the effectiveness of national and international drug strategies that place a disproportionate emphasis on supply reduction at the expense of evidence based prevention and treatment of problematic illegal drug use," they add.
In an accompanying podcast, co-author Dan Werb says that other indicators of the effectiveness of illegal drug policies are needed, such as rates of HIV related transmission.
More information: www.bmjopen.bmj.com/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003077
Provided by British Medical Journal
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NWlight
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Re: International 'war' on illegal drugs is failing to curb supply [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#18917213 - 10/01/13 04:49 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Cheaper drugs? Better purity?
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luvdemshrooms
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Re: International 'war' on illegal drugs is failing to curb supply [Re: NWlight]
#18917324 - 10/01/13 05:12 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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NWlight said: Cheaper drugs? Better purity?

Almost sounds like a Reese's commercial.
-------------------- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
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Re: International 'war' on illegal drugs is failing to curb supply [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#18917349 - 10/01/13 05:16 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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It does? Im gonna have to start going trick or treating again
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Re: International 'war' on illegal drugs is failing to curb supply [Re: NWlight] 2
#18917552 - 10/01/13 06:04 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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NWlight said: Cheaper drugs? Better purity?

enter kool-aide man "OH YEAH!"
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Re: International 'war' on illegal drugs is failing to curb supply [Re: dirty]
#18918267 - 10/01/13 08:51 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Butt guyz, a bunch of cops are depending on being able to deprive anyone they want of their assets and freedom to support a ridiculous wage for job skills that would go unneeded in a post-prohibition society. I'm sorry, but you will continue to have to go to jail for decades so that Officer Fuckwit won't ever have to worry about learning a new job skill. Also, think of all of the rich Americans that earn their standard of living by locking up non-violent offenders. Do you really want to live in a society where some senator who is wealthy beyond what he could ever possibly spend or trust-fund baby can't pour all his resources into locking up the poor and expect double digit returns on his money? Do you really want to live in a society where law enforcement officers have not turned into bandits whose new-toys-fund is predicated by how much they can forcibly take from citizens with no accountability for their actions?
Edited by dokunai (10/01/13 08:56 PM)
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Re: International 'war' on illegal drugs is failing to curb supply [Re: dokunai]
#18918336 - 10/01/13 09:05 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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dokunai said: Butt guyz, a bunch of cops are depending on being able to deprive anyone they want of their assets and freedom to support a ridiculous wage for job skills that would go unneeded in a post-prohibition society. I'm sorry, but you will continue to have to go to jail for decades so that Officer Fuckwit won't ever have to worry about learning a new job skill. Also, think of all of the rich Americans that earn their standard of living by locking up non-violent offenders. Do you really want to live in a society where some senator who is wealthy beyond what he could ever possibly spend or trust-fund baby can't pour all his resources into locking up the poor and expect double digit returns on his money? Do you really want to live in a society where law enforcement officers have not turned into bandits whose new-toys-fund is predicated by how much they can forcibly take from citizens with no accountability for their actions?
well said.
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Re: International 'war' on illegal drugs is failing to curb supply [Re: LethargicBeing]
#18918410 - 10/01/13 09:18 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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What's more important though killing the white whale or going lobster hunting?
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Lord_McLovin
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Re: International 'war' on illegal drugs is failing to curb supply [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#18921057 - 10/02/13 01:06 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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luvdemshrooms said: Finally some good news!
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