Pubdate: Fri, 13 Jan 2012
Source: Goldstream Gazette (Victoria, CN BC)
Copyright: 2012 William Perry
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1291
Author: William Perry

COCAINE SEIZURES A DROP IN THE BUCKET

The Canadian and B.C. governments claim to making ground in the war 
on drugs, but a quick look at the estimates of regional cocaine flows 
suggests this is only a fraction of the amount which passes through 
America into the country.

These so-called "drug busts" are heralded as a trophies in the 
struggle authorities are waging against drug trafficking.

However, such self-congratulatory acts may not be entirely warranted.

If the percentage of seizures are applied to the United Nations 
Office on Drugs and the RCMP's crime estimates that some 165 metric 
tons of cocaine is consumed in North America annually, it would mean 
that around 143 tons of the drug pass through Honduras into the U.S.A 
and Canada, potentially, annually.

The claims represents a drop in an Olympic size swimming pool of the 
total cocaine shipped, and has only worsened in recent years.

This is unlikely to change in the future, as the governments are 
notoriously in denial. In addition, are the thousands of illegal 
weapons that have ended up on the black market. Maybe it is time for 
a re-think?

William Perry

Victoria
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