The UAE's modern facilities, combined with its strategic location, have proven to be a draw for drug traffickers, and Dubai has seen a significant rise in it in recent years. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime hasn't figured out yet that prohibition doesn't work, and so they are working on creating a Gulf Centre for Criminal Intelligence, to involve law enforcement agencies from all six of the Gulf Cooperation Council states. But while they'll undoubtedly seize drugs and arrest traffickers, that won't reduce the availability of drugs, as <a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/638/UNODC_peru_colombia_coca_cocaine">the UN's own reports keep finding</a>.