This book deals with the rising epidemic of illegal drug use and its relation to governmental policies. Drug trafficking in the United States has b...

A sense of scale is a prerequisite to thinking sensibly about illicit drug markets. For example, knowing whether a country consumes tens, hundreds,...

Revenue from the illegal drug industry provides international drug trafficking organisations with the resources to evade and compete with law enfor...

Book & DVD. The 2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is a report by the Department of State to Congress prepared in acc...

Scandal and corruption, drugs and pirates, triads and flower boats; the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and the Communist take-over of Canton. Pet...

The federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) outlaws the possession, cultivation, or distribution of marijuana except for authorised research. Twent...

Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug across the world, including in the United States. The federal government prohibits the manufacture...

This book examines methamphetamines, which have risen to the top of the American drug-policy agenda. For most of its history, it was regarded in la...

Methamphetamine (meth), a drug with limited medical use and high potential for abuse and addiction, is a subject of widespread concern. Once associ...

This book, prepared by the foreign law specialists and analysts of the Law Library of Congress, provides a review of laws adopted in Argentina, Aus...

The United States, at the local, state, tribal, and Federal levels, has made a concerted effort to enhance, expand, and codify multiple measures de...

The global illegal drug trade represents a multi-dimensional challenge that has implications for U.S. national interests as well as the internation...

An increasing number of states have adopted laws that legalise marijuana for medical or recreational purposes under state law, yet federal penaltie...

The President's National Drug Control Strategy describes the Administration's strategic approach for reducing illicit drug use in the United States...

Tobacco products face varying levels of taxation in different locations, creating opportunities and incentives for illicit trade. Cigarettes are ta...

This book explores the trafficking of persons for the purpose of exploitation and illicit drug trafficking in Latin America and the Caribbean. Traf...

Substance abuse takes a terrible toll on the public health, public safety and financial resources of the United States. The Administration's nation...

Violence in Central America has reached crisis levels. Throughout Central America, Mexican drug trafficking organization, local drug traffickers, t...

The war on drugs is a kind of declared war against a set of often invisible foes which is often fought with toothless policies, uncoordinated campa...