Drug Control: International Policy and Options (Congressional Research Service) |  | Authors: Rensselaer Lee Congressional Research Service, Raphael Perl Congressional Research Service
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Drug Control: International Policy and Options
Congressional Research Service Report for Congress
....Efforts to reduce the flow of illicit drugs
from abroad into the United States greatly
have so far not succeeded. Moreover, over the
past decade, worldwide production of illicit
drugs has risen dramatically: opium and
marijuana production has roughly doubled and
coca production tripled. Also, street prices of
cocaine and heroin have fallen significantly in
the past 20 years, reflecting increased availability.
A major area of ongoing concern is:
how effective can international narcotics
control programs be in helping to reduce
consumption?
Despite national political resolve to deal
with the drug problem, inherent contradictions
regularly appear between U.S. anti-drug policy
and other policy goals and concerns. Pursuit
of these goals can sometimes affect foreign
policy interests and bring political instability
and economic dislocation to countries where
narcotics production has become entrenched
economically and socially. Drug supply
interdiction programs and U.S. systems to
facilitate the international movement of goods,
people, and wealth are often at odds. U.S.
international narcotics policy requires cooperative
efforts by many nations which may have
domestic and foreign policy goals that compete
with the requirements of drug control.
The mix of competing domestic and
international pressures and priorities has
produced an ongoing series of disputes within
and between the legislative and executive
branches concerning U.S. international drug
policy. One contentious issue has been the
Congressionally-mandated certification process,
an instrument designed to induce
specified drug-exporting countries to prioritize
or pay more attention to the fight against
narcotics businesses. In a significant development
Congress waived the drug certification
requirements for 2002 in December 2001,
while requiring the President, with certain
exceptions, to designate and withhold assistance
from countries that had failed demonstrably
to meet their counternarcotics obligations........
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