Dealers 'support war on drugs'

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Organised crime expert Misha Glenny warned this week of an imminent explosion in illicit drug use as cartels increasingly produce synthetic drugs inside consumer countries rather than shipping good across borders. The author of ‘McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld’ pointed out that the key cost component of most drugs involved international transportation costs and predicted that prices will collapse if Prohibition continues. “This is a policy whose greatest supporters – and I discovered this in Canada and in Colombia—are the people it’s designed to bring down,” Mr Glenny told Canadian news portal Straight.com. “The big drug dealers who… support the war on drugs because it’s the nature of prohibition that makes their vast profits and ensures that they’re able to go on holiday to the Caribbean every year,” he said.
In more drug related news, former Mixmag editor Dom Philips chatted to the Times about the influence of the British magazine during his tenure in the early 90s this week, recounting one of the mag’s best features ‘Can you drive on drugs?’ “Three volunteers drove a slalom course of traffic cones sober, with a driving instructor. They then took marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy and did it again. Their driving ability decreased. As, once this piece was published, did the number of clubbers driving home in similar states,” he said. “What we didn’t reveal, under legal advice, was that for the cocaine user, one line had improved his driving,” said Philips.

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