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The War on Drugs is an initiative undertaken by the United States to carry out an "all-out offensive" (as President Nixon described it) against the prohibited use of certain legally controlled drugs. The Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress noted in a 1989 report that the nation's war on drugs could be considered to have started in public policy dating to November 1880, when the U.S. and China completed an agreement which prohibited the shipment of opium between the two countries. By February 1887, the 49th Congress enacted legislation making it a misdemeanor for anyone on American soil to be found guilty of violating this ban. It became officially the "war on drugs" in the 1930s, with the marijuana scare that banned possession and cultivation of cannabis (including hemp).
The "War on Drugs" has sought to cause a massive surge in cost for illicit mind-altering substances, which it has succeeded in doing, from the perspective of mark-ups, in turn raising the market value of the trade in highly targeted drugs such as cocaine and heroin to over a trillion dollars, but failed in terms of retail prices in the long term. This has had several prominent sociological, economic and political effects. A case in point is the South American country of Colombia, which had developed a commodity market to manage their imports and exports by the late 1960s. The subsequent actions taken by the American government included dumping surplus corn and grain into the Colombian market below market prices, depressing domestic production. The following decades showed a substantial rise in demand for cocaine in America. A number of economically depressed Colombian farmers in several remote areas of the country began to turn to what became a new, ilicit cash crop for its high resale value and cheap manufacturing process. Local coca cultivation, however, remained comparatively minoritary in Colombia until the mid-1990s. Drug traffickers originally imported most coca base from traditional producers in Peru and Bolivia for processing in Colombia, until erradication efforts in those countries resulted in a "balloon effect".
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Seen on reddit.com: stanthebat "We have always been at war with drugs." bCabulon "I'm not sure I want to be at war without them."
rlancefield (Roger Lancefield) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:45:54 -0000
Seen on reddit.com: stanthebat "We have always been at war with drugs." bCabulon "I'm not sure I want to be at war without them."
RT @DavidCarlson1: End the failed war on drugs! -> Amid Rising Violence, Mexicans Fight Back http://tinyurl.com/ygzuht5 #tcot
slasher76 (chris ) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:21:42 -0000
RT @DavidCarlson1: End the failed war on drugs! -> Amid Rising Violence, Mexicans Fight Back http://tinyurl.com/ygzuht5 #tcot
RT @DavidCarlson1 End the failed war on drugs! -> Amid Rising Violence, Mexicans Fight Back http://tinyurl.com/ygzuht5 #tcot
vinatero_ (Steve Gamba) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:39:45 -0000
RT @DavidCarlson1 End the failed war on drugs! -> Amid Rising Violence, Mexicans Fight Back http://tinyurl.com/ygzuht5 #tcot
Video - The Daily Show's Best War on Drugs Moments: Low Riders in the sky: http://bit.ly/2uHvML
TheMJO (MJO) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:16:28 -0000
Video - The Daily Show's Best War on Drugs Moments: Low Riders in the sky: http://bit.ly/2uHvML
Ike Reilly and Shooter Jennings duet - The War On The Terror and Drugs -http://tinyurl.com/y9gjj6e > Not half bad!
TwangNation (Baron Lane) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:53:11 -0000
Ike Reilly and Shooter Jennings duet - The War On The Terror and Drugs -http://tinyurl.com/y9gjj6e > Not half bad!
Whether your for the war on drugs or not HB2943 makes fiscal sense. Outside of legal rams, it will cut fed costs http://bit.ly/24lBFN
CutterMitchell (Cutter Mitchell) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:07:08 -0000
Whether your for the war on drugs or not HB2943 makes fiscal sense. Outside of legal rams, it will cut fed costs http://bit.ly/24lBFN
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