Yet Another Study Proves the War on Drugs is Failing as Supplies Increase Saki Knafo - The Huntington Post
go to original October 2, 2013

It’s one of the signal images of the global drug war: a team of triumphant law-enforcement officers posing for the TV cameras with a pile of the illegal drugs they’ve just seized from the bad guys.



To judge from the pervasiveness of these photos, you might think that the world’s supply of drugs is waning.

But illegal drugs are more widely available than ever. A new study from the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy, a research group based in Vancouver, British Columbia, shows that substances are getting more concentrated and cheaper, which suggests the world's drug supply is increasing.

... The research, published this week in the British Medical Journal, reveals that heroin, cocaine and cannabis have become cheaper in the past two decades, even as those drugs have generally become more pure and potent. Information about the potency of those drugs was culled from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and other government groups.

This evidence suggests that the world’s supply of illegal drugs has grown, despite an increase in drug seizures around the world, according to the report, which was funded in part by Open Society Foundations.

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