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Page 258 - It is my belief that the desire to alter consciousness periodically is an innate, normal drive analogous to hunger or the sexual drive.
Page 283 - Illicit drugs of all types — especially marijuana, cocaine and heroin — were more readily available and generally cheaper in the United States in January 1989 than they had been at the outset of the Reagan Presidency in 1981. Drug use and abuse in US society had increased dramatically over the 1980s and the US drug market remained the biggest and most lucrative in the world. Drug-related crimes and violence had reached epidemic proportions in many US cities, greatly exacerbated by the rapid spread...
Page 12 - But the people will no longer believe, never again. The people do not believe in elections. The people know that the legal means have been exhausted. The people know that armed struggle is the only remaining course. The people are desperate, and they are determined to risk their lives so that the next generation of Colombians will not be one of slaves; so that the children of those who now are willing to give their lives will have an education...
Page xi - ... supplyreduction efforts in developing countries. In the wake of a general failure of these supply-reduction strategies to control consumption anywhere (indeed, they may have served to expand it), a strong shift is now expected in international drug-control efforts. The purpose of the country studies in this series is to expand the level of information and awareness about costs and consequences of the present policies and to consider the implications of proffered new solutions for developing areas....
Page xi - This is highly unfortunate because until recently most illicit-drug-control initiatives have focused on supplyreduction efforts in developing countries. In the wake of a general failure of these supply-reduction strategies to control consumption anywhere (indeed, they may have served to expand it), a strong shift is now expected in international drug-control efforts. The purpose of the country studies in this series is to expand the level of information and awareness about costs and consequences...
Page 294 - In economic analysis generally, a payment to a ' factor of production in excess of what is needed to keep it in its present use.
Page xi - ... have apparently had only marginal impact. Although the literature on illicit drugs is now rapidly expanding, most of it has focused on consumption and drug-control problems in major industrialized countries. Less attention has been paid to the impact of production, trade, and consumption of illicit drugs and international control policies in the developing countries. This is highly unfortunate, because illicit-drugs control initiatives have been mostly concentrated on supply-reduction efforts...
Page x - ... Aid to Bolivia, 1984-1992 137 6.2 USAID Alternative Development Aid to Bolivia Actually Disbursed, 1983-1990 138 6.3 Number of Years Before Commercial and Full Production After Seeding for Crops in the Chapare 138 Figure 1.1 Coca Prices, April 1986-July 1991 21 Foreword LAMOND TULLIS James Painter's excellent book is part of a multicountry study of the socioeconomic and political impact of the production, trade, and use of illicit narcotic drugs. The project is sponsored by the United Nations...