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...hand in the 1970s. The situation deteriorated to the point that one high-school senior “showed up for school so drunk that he couldn’t get out of his car.” Clearly, teenagers tipple for reasons other than alcohol’s illicit appeal. Although at times it might seem that underage drinking is so prevalent that the drinking age is irrelevant, in practice a higher MLDA does play a role in prevention...
...from the stony soil of strife-torn Afghanistan. Since the brutal Taliban regime was toppled five years ago by Western coalition forces, the government of President Hamid Karzai, beset by warlords and Islamic militants, has struggled to maintain order and control. The country's primitive economy is dominated by illicit opium production, which by some estimates accounts for as much as one-third of GDP. About 40% of Afghans are unemployed. And last month, the World Food Program warned that millions of rural Afghans might starve this winter because a prolonged drought has devastated the wheat harvest...
There is persuasive evidence that the supply chain is easily infiltrated. A September report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) said flatly, "U.S. control systems cannot help deter illicit rough diamonds from entering the legitimate trade." Another disturbing finding: the U.S. reported exporting more diamonds than it received in 2003-- a remarkable trade imbalance for a nation without a single working mine. The GAO said, with bureaucratic dryness, that such figures were "not plausible...
...some Americans, Cuba is a failed Communist experiment and a source of high-quality, illicit cigars. To Harvard students, it’s the newest academic destination of choice. This spring, Harvard will offer a study abroad program at the University of Havana, an experience that would “otherwise be illegal for U.S. citizens and residents because of the U.S. embargo on trade with Cuba,” says the Web site for the Office of International Programs (OIP). Study in Cuba has recently become more difficult because of new regulations that make it trickier for Harvard...
...editors: Regarding Juliet S. Samuel’s thoughtful op-ed of Oct. 10 (“Drug Policy? What Are You, High?”), the drug war is in large part a war on marijuana, by far the most popular illicit drug. Punitive marijuana laws have little, if any, deterrent value. The University of Michigan’s “Monitoring the Future” study reports that lifetime use of marijuana is higher in the United States than in any European country, yet America is one of the few Western countries that uses its criminal justice...