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The War on Drugs Revisited: Old Problems, Old Solutions, Same Results CLAS Workshop on Drug Trade September 16, 2009 Pablo F Gomez Department of History, Vanderbilt University Some History A long time ago, in a far, far away country...

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The War on Drugs Revisited: Old Problems, Old Solutions, Same Results

CLAS Workshop on Drug Trade September 16, 2009 Pablo F Gomez Department of History, Vanderbilt University

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Some History

 A long time ago, in a far, far away country...  Shangai 1909 war on opium  Many more  1998 UN launches 'A Drug Free World' by 2008  Last week meeting in Vienna  What's coming?

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Some Quick Numbers

 All this are educated guesses  'Evidential rigour is a causality of illegality'  5% (at least) of world 'adult' (not an infant)

populations uses drugs (more than 200m people)

 Production of Cocaine, Opium (heroine)

unchanged from the 90s

 Production of Cannabis (Marihuana) up

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More Guesses

 Consumption of Cocaine is higher than in the

1990s

 Street price continues to descend (despite

claims of increased seizures) more on this later

 No extinction but adaptation  Opium move from Turkey and Thailand to

Myanmar and Afghanistan

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Not Guesses

 40 billion/year  Incarceration of 1.5 million US citizens/ per year  6,000 dead/year (Mexico)  Drug Industry is worth $ 320 Billion/year  And the results of the 'War on Drugs' are...

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2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 5 2 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 1 1 1 2

Cannabis resin Herbal cannabis Cocaine Heroin brown Amphetamines Ecstasy LSD

Index (2001 = 100)

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U.S. Aid to Colombia, 1996-2006

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 (est) 2006 (req)

Military/ Police

54.15 88.56 112.44 309.1 8 765.4 9 242.9 7 401.9 3 620.9 8 555.0 7 641.6 641.1 5

Econom ic/Social

0.62 0.52 8.75 214.3 1 5.65 120.3 136.7 134.9 8 131.2 9 138.5 2

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Bojaya

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Kidnapping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivz3bDf_6RE&f eature=related

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Ciudad Juarez

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President Vieria of Guinea-Bissau

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Rio de Janeiro

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Taliban-al Qaeda

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Close to Home

 Total federal expenditures for the first 10 years

  • f Prohibition amounted to $88 million—about

$1 billion in 2008 dollars

 Today $19 billion a year now in federal

spending alone

 Effect...

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Incarceration

 Total drug arrests are now more than 1.5 million

a year

 Since 1989, more people have been

incarcerated for drug offenses than for all violent crimes combined

 There are now about 480,000 drug offenders in

jails and prisons

 50 percent of the federal prison population

consists of drug offenders

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The overwhelming majority....

 African-Americans  Followed by Hispanics  Minor drug traffiquers (Dealers)  Poor  Users (a significant percentage with Mental

Disease)

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Not to talk about

 Prostitution  Corruption  Broken Generations  Destroyed Economies  Destroyed Farmlands

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Human Side of Story

  • Venezuela
  • Ecuador
  • Bolivia's Cocaine Bars
  • Lost generations
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