Drugs, Crime, and Corruption: Thinking the Unthinkable
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (777 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081471529X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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An international security and political risk consultant, Richard Clutterbuck is the author of 17 books, including Terrorism in an Unstable World and Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare. In 1994, traveled to Peru in order to advise the armed forces and visit the main coca growing area in the Huallaga Valley.
Drawing on the dramatic examples of Peru and Columbia as case studies, the book describes in detail the manufacture and distribution of cocaine, crack, heroin, cannabis, speed, ice, and LSD. A full half of all murders in the United States are drug-related. At a time when policies of suppression are faltering and when the War on Drugs has clearly failed, Clutterbuck weighs the pros and cons of the alternatives: What would need to be done to make suppression work? Should some drugs be decriminalized? How effective has the Dutch experiment been? Is the licensing of drugs to cure addictions an effective remedy?. Each year, 30,000 Columbians die violent deaths, victims of the drug trade. Crimes generated by the drug world are rampant. And in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Mafia-style gangs are quickly learning how lucrative the drug trade can be.In an attempt to expose the links between crime, drugs, corrupti
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