According to the State Department's annual drug-trafficking report, a federal law took effect in 1985 authorizing the United States to penalize countries that do not control illicit narcotics production. Today, these same countries are now producing larger quantities of heroin, cocaine, marijuana and other drugs, Furthermore, three years after installing a pro-U.S. government, Afghanistan has been unable to contain opium poppy production and is on the verge of becoming a narcotics state. Opium poppy is the raw material for heroin. Colombia is the source of more than 90 percent of the cocaine and 50 percent of the heroin entering the United States. The report also listed Mexico as a major producer of heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana destined for U.S. markets. Source: New York Times and Associated Press.

Some wouldthreat in existence today. Perhaps a balanced integration of all three of these solutions is our only answer.

hey, it's not like the prohibition helped make a bunch of criminals rich or anything. AND it stopped all those people from drinking, all because of one woman who was sick of her alcoholic husband. The politicians who passed it still drank, btw.

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Still others offer a more hard-line approach when it comes to dealing with foreign countries such as setting a deadline for the removal of