ANTH106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sodium Bicarbonate, Coca Eradication, Vin Mariani

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

Document Summary

Political economy of coca and cocaine and the war on drugs: Programme (undcp) and united nations office of drug control and crime prevention (unodc). This will reduce production and availability, drive up prices, and discourage consumers. 2009: 8. 7: flaw, just because the drug is expensive doesnt mean people wont still purchase it. * u. s. federal budget for drug law enforcement:* 2003: billion (only . 6 billion for treatment and prevention) 2012: billion (includes . 7 billion for treatment and prevention, decrease in international drug control activities) Failure abroad: global coca cultivation, global illicit opium production: (from 1998-2009: +78% globally;+156% in afghanistan)** Global ats production (in metric tons) (ats = (cid:1688)amphetamine-type stimulants(cid:1689) Source: u. n. world drug report (2005, 2006, 2010) Heroin production in mexico: 2004: 9 tons; 2007: 18 tons; 2008: 38 tons (world drug report 2010 p. 44) Colombia (cid:1684)hydra effect(cid:1685) or (cid:1684)balloon effect(cid:1685) (production of drugs) Western countries: however, the prices are not high enough to reduce demand by consumers.