ANTH106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: New South Wales Police Force, Recreational Drug Use, Coca Eradication

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH106
• Professor: All

Document Summary

President nixon initiated modern war on drugs" in early 1970s, with new laws, increased funding, and enlargement on the anti-drug bureaucracy. Nixon also extended drug war abroad to strike at sources of supply. Presidents reagan and bush escalated drug war (e. g. militarisation in south america"s. Major protagonists in modern war on drugs: us and un drug control programme (undcp) and and changing prison sentencing laws) United nations office of drug control of crime prevention (unodc) Different characters in the expansion on war on drugs: bush increased military in latin america (mostly bore the brunt of it) Anti-drug agencies target illicit drugs at their source by pressuring foreign governments to target growers and destroy refining facilities. Anti-drug agencies attempt to intercept illicit drugs en route or at the borders of the u. s. and other western countries. Drug enforcement agents and police arrest drug dealers and seize drug supplies.