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...honest answer, which both surprises me and makes me squirm, is that to some degree Bennett and Co. are right. My generation, with its all too facile distinctions between soft drugs (marijuana, mild hallucinogens) and hard drugs (heroin and now crack), does share responsibility for creating an environment that legitimized and even, until recently, lionized the cocaine culture. This wink-and-a-nod acceptance, this implicit endorsement of illicit thrills, has been a continuing motif in movies, late-night television and rock music. My personal life may rarely intersect with impoverished drug addicts, but the entertainment media created...
...Thailand DEA agents and consular officials based in the northern city of Chiangmai said the U.S. should seriously consider shutting down an antidrug program. Reason: official corruption had gone so far that heroin was sometimes being transported in Thai police vehicles or even army helicopters, making the program a joke. The embassy, however, decided to live with the problem because it could see no alternative...
Prospects have brightened in Pakistan and Mexico. Haji Mirza Iqbal Baig, described as a heroin kingpin, surrendered to Pakistani police in early August; they hope he will help convict other powerful smugglers. In Mexico President Carlos Salinas de Gortari is prosecuting some formerly untouchable drug lords and officials, notably Jose Antonio Zorrilla Perez, the feared former chief of the Federal Security Directorate. But the State Department and the DEA are split over what to do about Cuba. State officials dismiss the executions of General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez and three other officers, allegedly for drug trafficking, as being really intended...
...czar William Bennett's newly created Office of National Drug Control Policy is equally cool. Says Dr. Herbert Kleber, the agency's deputy director: "I can only note that all previous attempts along this line have ended in disaster. Remember that morphine was used to treat opium addiction, and heroin was used to treat morphine addiction. If the drug Siegel envisions were too good, people would just want more...
...woman was just completing a heroin sale in Seattle when from around the corner whooshed a couple of cops mounted on bicycles. They quickly arrested the suspected drug dealer, called for a patrol car and had her hauled off to jail. In the woman's purse was a letter from a friend warning her to keep an eye peeled for cops on bikes...