This article examines a drugs trade in Asia that has been largely forgotten by historians and
policy-makers, that in cocaine. It will briefly trace some of the contours of this commerce and …

This article examines the market for cocaine in India during the early twentieth century and
the efforts of the colonial state to control it. The British authorities issued regulations to …

More than a hundred years have passed since the adoption of the first prohibitionist laws on
drugs. Increasingly, the edifice of international drug control and laws is vacillating under …

Drug abuse poses serious risks to human health. It is a leading cause of infectious diseases
such as HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C with the sharing of contaminated syringes, and …

FOR AT LEAST 15 years, policymakers and scholars con-cerned with the international traffic
in drugs have largely, and properly, focused their attention on Latin America. During that …

This chapter traces the progress of global drug trades and the process by which the
consumption and trafficking in drugs was criminalized. It notes that as of the beginning of the …

Cocaine, a substance of notoriety today, is certainly no new drug or menace on the global
scene. From 1860, when first synthesized in a German lab from dried Peruvian coca leaf, to …

At the beginning of the 21st century, alcoholism, transnational drug trafficking and drug
addiction constitute major problems in various South Asian countries. The production …

Criminalizing the trade in a major commodity like opium simply increased the mark-up
between producer and consumer, creating wide profit margins sufficient to corrupt would-be …