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That's not to say every drug-related company has been bulletproof, however. PharmaNet, an outfit that runs drug trials for biotech and pharmaceutical companies, has seen its cancellation rate spike because of drug discontinuations and mergers. Its stock is down...
...policies, just as the creation of HUD and Energy were supposed to telegraph the importance of housing and energy problems. But it certainly hasn't solved those problems. Just once, it would be nice to see a Cabinet appointee - maybe a Commerce Secretary or an Agriculture Secretary or a drug czar - say that his or her department's mission was obsolete, or that it certainly didn't deserve Cabinet status...
...heroin program has not only rehabilitated former junkies; it has also enabled the Swiss government to learn about patterns of drug abuse and addiction. Researchers at the Zurich Department of Social Welfare have discovered the exact mechanisms by which heroin junkies become addicted and have devised more comprehensive solutions for treatment and rehabilitation. Were it not for this program, these findings would have been much more difficult to come...
...Switzerland is waging—and winning—a real war on drugs, instead of losing a war on drug users. The United States ought to step back and examine the Swiss program as a solution to its own narcotics problems. At the very least, it could refrain from criticizing the Swiss...
...Typically, when those actions take place in a failed or failing state - one with no law and little government - the consequences are negative. They include a refugee and disease exodus (such as from Zimbabwe), sex trafficking (Bangladesh and Nepal) and drug-smuggling and terrorism (Afghanistan and Tajikistan). Indonesia, which has a weak government and endemic poverty and also happens to abut another primary sea route, was the world's worst piracy hotspot for a decade, until a couple of years ago, when it was overtaken by Nigeria, which has little law but plenty of poverty and oil platforms...