DRUG REPORTS
April 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHERE is a tendency amongst international business to think that the drugs trade has little impact on the real economy. Not so says a United Nations agency report, drugs harm legal commerce. Keith Nuthall reports.THE INTERNATIONAL Narcotics Control Board has to encourage governments to take tough action against illicit drugs and it knows that nothing corrodes effective policing against illegal narcotics than the dubious assumption that the trade actually promotes sustainable development in poor countries.A key problem is that even the board's 2002 ...
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