Drug Production

The global drug trade and its associated violence, corruption, and human suffering create global problems that include political and military conflicts, ethnic minority human rights violations, and stresses on economic development.

"World Drug Report 2007" sets out the most comprehensive global assessment of the current illicit drug situation, including trends in the global drugs market as well as in the four main markets for opium/heroin, cocaine, cannabis, and amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS). The 2007 report also examines the relationship between transnational organised crime and drug trafficking as well as giving information on drug production, prices, and consumption.The 2007 report highlights signs of long-term containment of the world problem, building on the assessment of last year, with trends indicating overall stability in all four key drug markets in relation to cultivation, production, and consumption. However, this overall trend masks contrasting regional situations. For instance, while an impressive multi-year reduction in opium poppy cultivation continued in South East Asia, Afghanistan recorded a large increase in 2006.

"World Drug Report 2007" sets out the most comprehensive global assessment of the current illicit drug situation, including trends in the global drugs market as well as in the four main markets for opium/heroin, cocaine, cannabis, and amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS).

The growth of the world's narcotics trafficking system has mirrored the growth of the world's economic system in many surprising ways over the past two-and-a-half centuries.

The growth of the world's narcotics trafficking system has mirrored the growth of the world's economic system in many surprising ways over the past two-and-a-half centuries.

This book describes the main patterns and trends of drug trafficking in Latin America and analyzes its political, economic and social effects on several countries over the last twenty years. Its aim is to provide readers an introductory yet elaborate text on the illegal drug problem in the region. It first seeks to define and measure the problem, and then discusses some of the implications that the growth of production, trafficking, and consumption of illegal drugs had in the economies, in the social fabrics, and in the domestic and international policies of Latin American countries.