The Organised War on Drugs is about a hundred years old.
Look at the use of Drugs Statistics.
The Global picture
Globally, it is estimated that in 2010 between 153 million
and 300 million people aged 15-64 (3.4-6.6 per cent of
the world’s population in that age group) had used an illicit
substance at least once in the previous year. The extent of
illicit drug use has thus remained stable, but the estimated
15.5 million-38.6 million problem drug users (almost 12
per cent of illicit drug users), including those with drug
dependence and drug-use disorders, remain a particular
concern.
It is also estimated that there were between 99,000 and
253,000 deaths globally in 2010 as a result of illicit drug
use, with drug-related deaths accounting for between 0.5
and 1.3 per cent of all-cause mortality among those aged
15-64.
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Moreover, it was estimated that in 2008 there were
16 million injecting drug users worldwide and that 3 million (18.9 per cent) of them were living with HIV, though
no new figures are available after 2008. Global prevalence
of hepatitis C infection among injecting drug users in 2010
was 46.7 per cent, meaning that some 7.4 million injecting drug users worldwide are infected with hepatitis C.
And some 2.3 million injecting drug users are infected
with hepatitis B. Evidence is also emerging that non-injecting drug use is also associated with an increased risk of
HIV infection, principally due to unprotected sex.”
With estimated annual prevalence of cannabis use in 2010
ranging from 2.6 to 5 per cent of the adult population
(between 119 million and 224 million estimated users aged
15-64), cannabis remains the world’s most widely used
illicit substance (see figure 1). There may be shifts in cannabis use between the drug’s two principal forms, resin and
herb, and there is even evidence of the increasing popularity of synthetic marijuana among young people in some
regions, but in general annual prevalence of cannabis use
remained stable in 2010…”
Money Spent on War On Drugs.
Nations, especially the US has been spending huge money on War on Drugs.
| Federal Drug Control BudgetUS Dollars (In Millions) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – Year – | – Total – | Demand Reduction | % of – Total – | Supply Reduction | % of – Total – | Domestic Law Enforcement | International | Interdiction | ||
| 2004 | 19,188.4 | 8,579.0 | 44.7% | 10,609.4 | 55.3% | 7,051.7 | 2,008.7 | 1,549.0 | ||
| 2005 | 20,371.6 | 8,798.2 | 43.2% | 11,573.4 | 56.8% | 7,267.5 | 2,432.2 | 1,873.7 | ||
| 2006 | 21,133.1 | 8,775.2 | 41.5% | 12,357.9 | 58.5% | 7,538.9 | 2,923.2 | 1,895.8 | ||
| 2007 | 22,175.1 | 9,056.6 | 40.8% | 13,118.5 | 59.2% | 7,881.9 | 3,045.2 | 2,191.4 | ||
| 2008 | 22,497.1 | 9,244.9 | 41.1% | 13,252.2 | 58.9% | 8,286.7 | 2,967.0 | 1,998.5 | ||
| 2009 | 25,579.5 | 10,332.7 | 40.4% | 15,246.8 | 59.6% | 9,017.1 | 3,697.1 | 2,532.6 | ||
| 2010 | 25,887.1 | 10,443.2 | 40.3% | 15,443.9 | 59.7% | 9,190.9 | 3,658.0 | 2,595.0 | ||
| 2011 | 25,731.6 | 10,563.8 | 41.1% | 15,167.8 | 58.9% | 9,093.6 | 3,706.7 | 2,367.5 | ||
| 2012 | 26,209.6 | 10,664.8 | 40.7% | 15,544.8 | 59.3% | 9,505.4 | 3,901.0 | 2,138.4 | ||
| TOTAL | 208,773.1 | 86,458.4 | 41.4% | 122,314.7 | 58.6% | 74,833.7 | 28,339.1 | 19,141.9 | ||
| % Chg/2004-2012 | +36.6% | +24.3% | — | +46.5% | — | +34.8% | +94.2% | +38.1% | ||
The idea to scale down th War on Drugs is gaining ground.
One of the speakers at the press conference in the Waldorf Astoria was an amiable man with glasses: César Gaviria, the president of Colombia from 1990 to 1994. While in office, he did almost everything except fight a war. Colombia was what Mexico is today: a country hijacked by drug lords.
“An irrational and pointless drug policy was partly responsible for that period,” says Gaviria today.”
The war on Drugs intensified during the Nixon Era.
In 2010, about 200 million people took illegal drugs. The numbers have remained relatively constant for years, as has the estimated annual volume of drugs produced worldwide: 40,000 tons of marijuana, 800 tons of cocaine and 500 tons of heroin. What has increased, however, is the cost of this endless war.
In the early 1970s, the Nixon administration pumped about $100 million into drug control. Today, under President Barack Obama, that figure is $15 billion — more than 30 times as much when adjusted for inflation. There is even a rough estimate of the direct and indirect costs of the 40-plus years of the drug war: $1 trillion in the United States alone.
In Mexico, some 60,000 people have died in the drug war in the last six years. US prisons are full of marijuana smokers, the Taliban in Afghanistan still use drug money to pay for their weapons, and experts say China is the drug country of the future.
Taking into account the high cost of War OnDrugs and the results it has produced the thought is on legalising the Trade of Drugas.
When about 30 national leaders met in Cartagena, Colombia, in April 2012 for the Summit of the Americas, there was only big, behind-the-scenes topic: a new drug policy. Suddenly Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was saying: “If the world decides to legalize (drugs) and thinks that that is how we reduce violence and crime, I could go along with that.”
General Otto Pérez Molina, president of Guatemala, wrote: “Consumption and production should be legalized but within certain limits and conditions.”
Uruguayan President José Mujica said: “What scares me is drug trafficking, not drugs”.
Vicente Fox, the president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006, wanted to wage the “mother of all wars” against organized crime, sending the Mexican army into the drug war. Today, Fox says that the war was a “total failure.”
In fact, sitting in Nadelmann’s office in Manhattan, it really is difficult to imagine a world without the drug war. A future in which marijuana and cocaine are legal and can be purchased in pharmacies or specialty drug shops? A life in which everyone decides for him- or herself: Am I going to take this drug? How much am I going to take? How do I protect my children?
It isn’t an easy thing to imagine. In fact, the very thought of it creates a gut-wrenching feeling, and it makes you ask yourself questions like: Legalizing drugs? Are you folks nuts?”
Sane Policy.
Gambling, Prostitution, Drinking and use of Intoxicants have been a part of Man since time immemorial.
Investing money on something to prohibit which a Man wants to do, is not a sound idea.
The best is to legalize it and provide adequate safeguards for individual’s health.
Despite this, if some one wants to poison himself to death, one can do nothing.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/global-support-grows-for-legalizing-drugs-a-884750-4.html
WARMONGER BARONS CONTROL THE DRUG PRODUCTION IN AFGHANISTAN
” The United States wants to stay in Afghanistan in order to keep its profitable heroin business in the country, a political analyst says.
“The only reason the United States would stay there frankly is to keep its multi-hundred-billion-dollar heroin business going. The business of Afghanistan has always been heroin. There’s no other reason the US was involved,” senior editor at Veterans Today Gordon Duff told Press TV on Thursday.
“The people of Afghanistan have made it very clear they don’t want the United States there,” he added………………………………………..
“When the United States went into Afghanistan in 2001, Afghanistan had ended almost every aspect of narcotics production,” Duff said. “As of last week, Afghanistan was producing 98 percent of the world’s… heroin.”
The United Nations reported last month that Afghanistan produced record levels of opium in 2013.
Cultivation of opium poppies, which are processed into heroin, rose 36 percent, amounting to 209,000 hectares.
Afghanistan remains the world’s largest opium producer – last year accounting for 75 percent of the world’s heroin supply.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2013/12/06/us-aims-to-stay-in-afghanistan-for-heroin-business.html
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2013/12/12/afghanistan-in-the-strategic-plans-of-iran.html
” Russia will bring its existential fight against the opium war targeting its youth — whose addiction rates have expanded in parallel to the massive increase in opium planting and heroin trafficking during the 13-year NATO presence in Afghanistan — to the UN Security Council, a move supported by China. U.S.-Russia joint collaboration on anti-narcotics is one of the only working- group relationships that has survived the Obama Administration and British geopolitical intrigues. It should be a new addition to the collaborative efforts on Syria and Iran, and, could become a decisive flank against the drug-money-saturated banking system, a favorite theme of Ivanov. It is only our enemies, and the stupidity of Washington’s Beltway idiots, that prevent the U.S. joining this effort. ” http://larouchepac.com/node/28902
” Costa’s blunt statements come in face of another strategic development which is not headline news yet. Russia, with the backing of China, wants to push a UN Security Council-sanctioned crackdown on narcotrafficking onto the international agenda. The utter failure of NATO to deal with the 40x boom in heroin production in Afghanistan in the midst of its massive military presence there since 2001 and its upcoming withdrawal, has led to a simmering revolt, which is demanding action against the heroin economy. Viktor Ivanov, the head of the Russian Federal Drug Control Agency, recently announced that Russia was putting this on the agenda of the June 2014 G-8 meeting in Sochi.
Within the United States, a boom of heroin addiction, including in supposedly-affluent middle class neighborhoods, plus debate on the NATO Afghan debacle, and its heroin boom legacy, has opened the door for increased U.S.-Russian collaboration against the global reach of Afghan-produced heroin. As with Syria and Iran, this U.S.-Russia collaboration must now take on the criminal banking system protecting the accumulated trillions of dollars from decades of narotics trafficking, be it cocaine or heroin.
Russian financial intelligence expert Konstantin Sorokin emphasized in his Sept. 6 Executive Intelligence Review interview that U.S. Russia collaboration is key to defeating the drug cartels and their bankers, and thus the legalization drive. http://www.larouchepub.com/other/interviews/2013/4035sorokin_v_laundering.html ” http://larouchepac.com/node/29007
WHO HAS CONCRETE INTERESTS IN THE CULTIVATION OF OPIUM POPPIES IN AFGHANISTAN ?
Prince Charles Inspects His Mother’s Poppy Fields in Helmand
April 15, 2010 • 9:00AM
On March 25-26, Prince Charles visited British troops in Afghanistan, becoming the most senior royal to visit British troops there. He received a briefing from Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. commander [editor confused whether it is “British” or “U.S.” commander] of all foreign troops in the country. The Guardian reported that “during a two-day visit amid tight security, he was flown by Chinook helicopter to Lashkar Gar, capital of Helmand province, where he met local leaders, the Governor Gulab Mangal, and British soldiers at a patrol base surrounded by opium poppy and wheat fields (emphasis added).”
It was not reported where Prince Charles met McChrystal, for example, in a poppy field, a heroin laboratory, or on a carpet, where the Prince was sitting cross-legged socializing with the local governor. Associated Press reported that “the 61-year-old heir to the British throne said troops can keep themselves busy in the field, but for the relatives left behind, it’s ‘ghastly.'” However, the Prince did not identify what the troops were keeping themselves busy with.
The AP shamelessly, but ironically, reports: “Britain has lost 276 troops since the war began in 2001. British soldiers have mainly been tasked with battling the Taliban in Helmand, the center of Afghanistan’s illegal narcotics trade that has financed the militant group.”
AP added that “Prince Charles crisscrossed Helmand by helicopter, flying over the canals, poppy fields, and mud compounds that make up much of the district. He met with local leaders in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, sitting crossed-legged on a cushion as he talked about the situation in Helmand.”
It further revealed the setting where the British troops are keeping themselves busy: “At Patrol Base Pimon, nestled among the blooming pink poppy fields of Nad Ali, he met some of the 140 British troops holding the front line and was told by commanding officer Maj. Ian Lindsay-German: ‘It’s a lot more quiet out there now, but it hasn’t been cleared fully’ of insurgents.”
However, clearing the fields of opium poppy is not on the agenda.
With this visit, the British are probably making it clear that Helmand might become the capital of what would be left of Afghanistan, when the catastrophic Obama Administration policy comes to a crushing defeat, and Kabul is abandoned to its fate in a sectarian and ethnically divided Afghanistan. Therefore, Helmand Province is of more interest for the British to keep quiet and “economically thriving” with the help of such American dupes as President Obama and General McChrystal. Helmand, whose Governor Mangal is being groomed by the British royals as a great tribal leader (as the British royals are themselves, oligarchical tribe leaders), is being portrayed as the stable and well-governed region of Afghanistan, unlike the “corrupt” President Karzai’s Kabul. ” http://larouchepac.com/node/14178
obama THAT KEEPS THE U.S. TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN IS A SERVANT OF THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND AND OF GOLDMAN SACHS.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2011/may/24/barack-obama-uk-state-visit-in-pictures?picture=374933181
(Obama Keeps One Campaign Promise: Make America Subservient To The British Empire http://larouchepac.com/node/18251 )
( Obama and Holder: Drug Pushers for the Queen http://larouchepac.com/node/28233 )
http://prof77.wordpress.com/politics/an-updated-list-of-goldman-sachs-ties-to-the-obama-government-including-elena-kagan/
ALSO ITALY KEEPS ITS TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN.
THE PRESIDENT OF ITALY napolitano IS ANOTHER SERVANT OF THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY.
” The Queen is spending a second day in hospital where she is being assessed for symptoms of gastroenteritis…….
All official engagements for this week, including the Queen’s trip to Rome, will be either cancelled or postponed………………………
The Queen had been due to spend two days in Rome with the Duke of Edinburgh next weekend, at the invitation of Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano.”
http://itvradionigeria.com/news/queen-elizabeth-second-day-in-hospital-with-stomach-bug/
“The Prince Charles heir to the Crown of England and his wife Camilla arrived Sunday in Italy for a two days visit…….the royal couple was received Sunday evening in Rome
by the italian president Giorgio Napolitano ”
http://www.lapresse.ca/environnement/200904/26/01-850491-charles-et-camilla-pour-le-climat-en-italie.php
THE PRIME MINISTER OF ITALY enrico letta IS PUPPET OF GOLDMAN SACHS BECAUSE HIS UNCLE gianni letta IS “A MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY BOARD OF GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianni_Letta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Letta
NATO THAT IS CONTROLLED BY THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL HAS STRONG RELATIONS ALSO WITH GOLDMAN SACHS.
The former prime minister of Italy mario ” Monti is a leading member of the exclusive Bilderberg Group. He has also been an international advisor to Goldman Sachs[53] and The Coca-Cola Company.He has also been a member of the “Senior European Advisory Council” of Moody’s and he is one of the members of the “Business and Economics Advisors Group” of the Atlantic Council. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Monti
THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY AND GOLDMAN SACHS ARE TIGHTLY LINKED WITH THE ROTHSCHILDS.
” Lord JACOB ROTHSCHILD, the behind-the-scenes controller of the Inter-Alpha Group, was a partner at Rothschild at the time he set up the Inter-Alpha Group in 1971, using its resources and then leaving in 1980 to continue his special mission, which includes advising the genocidal British Crown and managing the funds of Prince Charles’ Duchy of Cornwall, to finance his kooky, “green” schemes.” http://unitednationsoffilm.com/?p=1728
Coordinates: 51°50′32″N 0°56′16″W http://www.thefullwiki.org/Waddesdon_Manor http://www.waddesdon.org.uk/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waddesdon
” Prince Charles already played polo with EVELYN DE ROTHSCHILD in his student years and later set up the Interfaith consultations with him. ”
http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/people_with_the_endless_bios.htm
EVELYN DE ROTHSCHILD ” In 1989, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II,[2] for whom he serves as a financial adviser. ” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Robert_de_Rothschild http://www.breathingenglishair.blogspot.fr/2012/04/ascott-house-buckinghamshire.html
Coordinates: 51°53′43.62″N 0°42′22.23″W http://www.thefullwiki.org/Ascott_House
THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY HAS THE CONTROL OF THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-charles-dumps-rbs-boss-372885
BUT THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND IS RELATED ALSO WITH THE EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD OWNED BY BENJAMIN DE ROTHSCHILD
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_de_Rothschild ) AND BY HIS WIFE ARIANE DE ROTHSCHILD ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_de_Rothschild ) FOR EXAMPLE THROUGH THE PERSONS OF LAURA SCOLAN AND MARK PHILLIPS,ETC..
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/laura-scolan/a/ba1/7b7 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mark-phillips/4/5b9/772
http://www.lejdd.fr/Economie/Images/Les-plus-grosses-fortunes-de-France/Benjamin-de-Rothschild-206941
Coordinates: 46°14’6″N 6°8’34″E http://wikimapia.org/6825620/fr/Chateau-de-Pregny http://www.panoramio.com/photo/77169200
WHO CONTROLS GOLDMAN SACHS ?
GOLDMAN SACHS IS CONNECTED ALSO WITH WARREN BUFFET A FRIEND OF THAT FAILED FATHER CALLED JACOB ROTHSCHILD AND OF EVELYN DE ROTHSCHILD. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080664/Nat-Rothschild-naughty-boy-says-mother-law.html
Lord JACOB ROTHSCHILD “Hosted the European Economic Round Table conference in 2002 at Waddesdon Manor, attended by such figures as James Wolfensohn, Nicky Oppenheimer, Warren Buffet, and Arnold Schwarzenegger ” https://wikispooks.com/ISGP/organisations/introduction/PEHI_Jacob_de_Rothschild_bio.htm https://wikispooks.com/ISGP/organisations/introduction/PEHI_Evelyn_de_Rothschild_bio.htm
The same Warren Buffet, that is chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, ” agreed to purchase $5 billion in Goldman’s preferred stock “.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire_Hathaway
GOLDMAN SACHS IS CONNECTED ALSO WITH THE EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD. http://uk.linkedin.com/in/ruperttipler
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Christoph-Ladanyi/23971288
THE EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD IS OWNED BY BENJAMIN DE ROTHSCHILD ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_de_Rothschild ) AND BY HIS WIFE ARIANE DE ROTHSCHILD. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_de_Rothschild )
http://www.lejdd.fr/Economie/Images/Les-plus-grosses-fortunes-de-France/Benjamin-de-Rothschild-206941
” Benjamin de Rothschild, only son of the late Edmond de Rothschild, was a classic case of great expectations gone astray. Despite being groomed for greatness from a young age, as a teenager he skipped university and instead headed for Los Angeles with dreams of being a film producer. In LA he started taking drugs, and ended up on heroin. Meanwhile, he failed to make it into Hollywood’s charmed circle and bombed as a film-maker. ”
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/poor-little-rich-boys-1097744.html
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