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Newsbrief:
Putin
to
Create
Russian
DEA
9/27/02
Russian President Vladimir
Putin announced Monday that he would create a specialized narcotics enforcement
service similar to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to head
off a looming "social catastrophe," the Spanish press agency ANSA reported
this week. The announcement came at a cabinet meeting called to deal
with Russia's increasing levels of drug use and ever-worsening rate of
HIV/AIDS infection, much of it related to injection drug use.
Putin put the number of "drug
addicts" at around three million, or 2% of the population, adding that
many of them are youthful. He also said that "narcomafias" are prospering
and have developed dramatically since 1995. "In those years, the
country confronted radical changes in a very brief period of time," leading
to tears in the Russian social fabric and leaving a space for criminality
to flourish, Putin said. "Drug traffickers took advantage of a period
of instability and weakening of the state," he added.
Putin did not reveal how
a new anti-drug enforcement agency would reduce the black market profits
that have made drug trafficking organizations wealthy.
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Issue #256, 9/27/02
Editorial: The Tulia Lynchings | Medical Marijuana Supporters Rally in Sacramento | WAMM Files Federal Motion for Return of Marijuana Seized in Dispensary Raid | Calling on Students to Raise Your Voices for Repeal of the HEA Drug Provision | Former British Drug Czar Mo Mowlam Calls for Total Global Legalization, Cites Need to Quit Funding Political Violence | UC San Diego Orders Student Group to Drop Hyperlink to FARC Web Site, Cites Patriot Act | Colombian Leader Meets with Bush, Paramilitary Leader to Surrender Following US Indictment | Newsbrief: Putin to Create Russian DEA | Newsbrief: RAVE Act Sheds Another Cosponsor | Newsbrief: Buzzkill -- Venerable DC Weekly Rave Party Dies from Overdose of Ecstasy Enforcement | Newsbrief: UN Drug Control Chief Warns Canada Not to Legalize Marijuana | Newsbrief: French Cannabis Growers Create Facts on Ground | Newsbrief: German Health Ministry Says Safe Drug Centers Save Lives | Do You Read The Week Online? | Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision | The Reformer's Calendar
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