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The war on drugs : Wasting billions and undermining economies The global war on drugs has been fought for 50 years, without preventing the long-term trend of increasing drug supply and use. Beyond this failure, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has identified many serious negative unintended consequences of the drug war including the creation of a lucrative criminal market.(1) This criminal market has a range of economic implications, and stems from taking a punitive, enforcement-led approach that, by its nature, criminalises many users and places organised crime in control of the trade.
3 The costs of the war on drugs to the economy 1 Billions spent on drug law enforcement Global spending on drug law enforcement In order to accurately assess the ...
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