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Friday, June 5, 2009

Drug wars and the balloon effect


Why have billions of dollars and thousands of anti-narcotics agents around the world failed to throttle the global traffic in cocaine, heroin and marijuana? Blame wrong-headed policies, largely driven by the United States, and what experts call the balloon effect.

Squeezing a balloon in one place makes it expand in another. Destroy drug crops in one region and cultivation moves to another. Cut a supply route in one place and...
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http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/03/26/drug-wars-and-the-balloon-effect/?rpc=60

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