The long–extending ‘war on drugs’ began in May 1971 when former US President Richard Nixon actually proclaimed a so-called “war on drugs.” Ever since, the US and the Western Hemisphere have not won such a war, with every proclaimed victory ending up a fiasco. In the 1970s and early ’80s, Mexico and Jamaica pummeled marijuana [...]

A new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry states that cocaine vaccine ‘reduces use of the drug by raising anti-cocaine antibody levels in the blood, thereby inactivating the cocaine before it enters the brain and gives the user a high.’ Dr. Thomas Kosten, the report’s senior writer, ‘has been trying to develop a [...]

In South America, the War on Drugs waged by the US is hated for various reasons, foremost of which is the historical significance of the coca plant in the continent, because ‘the coca plant is a cultural treasure of South America.’ As everybody knows, revered as the coca is, the plant is also what eventually [...]

Mexico’s biggest problem is the optimized power of drug cartels and organized crime. No government policy to crack down these groups seemed to have worked to solve the problem.
Mexico recently announced it would decriminalize possession of small quantities of drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, LSD, methamphetamines, heroin, and opium if these are for personal use. [...]

The return home was not like Pablo Eche had dreamed.
After 15 months in a recovery clinic, struggling against his addiction in “paco”, a highly addictive drug that put an end to thousands of lives in Argentina, Eche returned to Ciudad Oculta.
His relatives, including his mother, Bilma Acuna, anti-paco activist of the community, gave him the [...]

A report of the Congress of the USA notices about a strong penetration of the drug traffic in Venezuela, with a very significant increase of the volume of exports of drugs and of the complicity in the high civil and military authorities that collaborate and they protect to guerrilla and the Colombian criminal organizations.
Substantially, the [...]

Drug trafficking on an industrial scale is happening in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. The country is said to be the African gateway for European and South American cocaine. The country has also been ravaged by poverty, civil war (1998-1999) and a national culture of political murder.
It is also said that regional distribution of Guinea-Bissau cocaine occurs [...]

Designer drugs like Ecstasy and crystal meth are on the rise worldwide. On the other hand, the demand for conventional drugs such as cocaine and cannabis decreases. These are some of the conclusions presented in the recently published World Drug Report by the United Nations.
Global demand for cocaine, opiates, and cannabis is stagnant or shrinking, [...]

One of the world’s most profitable drugs, cocaine, handles about $ 50 billion in the second report released Wednesday by the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), connected to the UN (United Nations).

The analysis of the Executive Director of UNODC, Antonio Costa, is that while the indices of purity and number of [...]

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has shown Friday 20, that the area of cultivation of the coca leaf declined by 18 thousand hectares in 2008 in Colombia, for the previous year. But in Bolivia and Peru, there was an increase of 6% and 4.5% respectively.

Between 2007 and 2008, the cultivation of [...]