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...access and process the needed chemicals are not widely spread and, consequently, the market tends to favor more organized groups ... In contrast, most of the cultivation of drug crops like coca and opium poppy is confined to small areas within two or three countries. Most of the world's heroin supply is produced on a land area about the size of Greater London...
Highlight Reel: 1. On cocaine and heroin trafficking: "The $50 billion global cocaine market is undergoing seismic shifts. Purity levels and seizures are down, prices are up, and consumption patterns are in flux. This may explain the gruesome upsurge of violence in countries like Mexico ... While 41 % of the world's cocaine is being seized (mostly in Colombia), only one-fifth (19%) of all opiates are being intercepted ... In 2007, Iran seized 84% of the world's opium and 28% of all heroin...
...counterfeiting. Art's a great guy with a huge problem. If you meet Art, you don't really feel like you're talking to a criminal. You feel like you're talking to a very bright guy, a very humble guy. But counterfeiters have a higher recidivism rate than heroin addicts - the crime gets in the blood that strongly. So telling myself "He's all done, he's never going back" would be foolish. Even though that's what I hope for more than anything...
...foods laced with marijuana or other drugs. In some backpacker cafés, for instance, so-called happy food gets its kick from illicit materials. At the same time, drug convictions in Laos warrant heavy punishments, with the death penalty applicable for cases involving more than 500 grams of heroin. (However, the Laotian government says no one has been executed on such a drug conviction since 1989.) With Orobator's sentencing, perhaps the pizzas in Laos will taste a little less happy in the future...
Read "Swiss Heroin Program Is Put to a Vote...