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News Flash Drug War now killing more people than Afghanistan War
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By Jules Marshall
Moroccan Hashish Around 70% of the world’s hash comes from Morocco, and about 95% of Morocco’s hash comes from the province of Ketama – the province that dominates the Rif Mountains. The story goes that the people of Ketama, the Ketamese, always saw themselves as a separate entity from the state of Morocco. Soft Secrets reporter Wil Edwards then went there to investigate and score some first rate hashish!
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More people were killed in Drug Warrelated violence in Mexico last year than died in the war in Afghanistan, according to reports from both countries released at the end of 2010. In Afghanistan, about 10,000 people - 2,043 of them civilians - died in the fighting last year. Although that conflict involves air power, heavy weapons, and numerous roadside bombs, it was less deadly last year than the Mexican Drug War, with a death toll estimated at around 13,000 by CNN. In mid-December, the Mexican attorney general's office reported that 12,456 people had been killed through the end of November. With a death toll of more than 1,000 per month in 2010, a year-end figure of more than 13,000 looks to be accurate.
More than 140,000 U.S. and NATO troops are in the ninth year of a guerilla war with thousands of Taliban fighters who reap the profits of the illegal opium/heroin
trade. In Mexico, more than 50,000 federal troops are in the fourth year of a fight with the drug cartels, who all seem to also be at war with each other.
Ex-Presidents (and Richard Branson) aim to see sense on Drugs
and prevention campaigns, and examine the economic and political ramifications of the massive illicit global drug trade.
A group of world political leaders, intellectuals, and businessman Richard Branson established a Global Commission on Drug Policies in January in a bid to boost the effort to achieve more humane and rational drug laws. The commission is headed by former Brazilian President Henrique Cardoso and builds on the work Cardoso and former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo and former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria did with the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy. The commission's goals include reviewing the basic
assumptions, effectiveness and consequences of the 'war on drugs' approach; evaluating the risks and benefits of different national responses to the drug problem; and developing actionable, evidence-based recommendations for constructive legal and drug policy reform. The commission aims to examine the current international drug control regime, conduct a global overview of drug policies and laws, examine the drug production and supply chain, address criminal justice challenges, study the lessons learned from harm reduction, treatment,
In addition to the three ex-presidents, commission members include former US Secretary of State George Schulz, writers Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa, former European Union official Javier Solana, former Swiss President Ruth Dreifuss, and former UN High Commissioner for Refugees Thorvald Stoltenberg. "There is a growing perception that the "war on drugs" approach has failed," the commission said in a statement announcing its existence in Geneva. Continues on page 3
