20 Aug 2008, Posted by Cat in News, 26 Comments. Tagged drugs, facts
the war on drugs
Consider this: The global illicit drugs market is worth $US 94 billion at the wholesale end of the market. The next largest “legal” global wholesale export market is meat at $US 52.5 billion. From cultivation and manufacturing through to use, the global illicit drugs market is worth $US 322 billion. The global illicit drugs industry is larger than the GDP of 88 per cent of the world’s countries. That’s because demand is high – 5 per cent of the world’s population – 200 million people – use illicit drugs.
These figures are tabulated in the 2005 United Nations Drugs Report.
Imagine if governments were collecting the revenue instead of drug lords.
26 Comments
August 20, 2008 4:59 am
murasaki_1966
If govts collected the profit from illegal drugs, and regulated the market, not only would we have enough more morphine to go around, and possibly less deaths (controlled drugs are cleaner drugs), we could probably fund our hospitals and our schools at a decent level, and there might be some money left over for those pesky artist types who are always whinging about lack of funding.
August 20 2008 05:02 am
Cat @
of course, there'd be harsh consequences too, but there are harsh consequences from the way things are at the moment too.
August 20, 2008 5:41 am
drjon
You’re such a Commie. Obviously you want the Terrists to win.
— Professor Norman Zinberg
August 20 2008 05:42 am
Cat @
hmmm... politicians or drug lords. Yeah, its a fine line.
August 20, 2008 5:44 am
jblum
Course, if illegality weren’t keeping the prices high, the total revenue would crash…
August 20 2008 05:44 am
Cat @
true
August 20, 2008 6:09 am
murasaki_1966
Alcohol- It has been reported that the first European settlers in Australia drank more alcohol per head of population than any other community in the history of mankind.
* Police force – Australia’s first police force was a band of 12 of the most well behaved Convicts. (They were paid in rum).
* Mass moonings – In 1832, 300 female Convicts at the Cascade Female Factory mooned the Governor of Tasmania during a chapel service. It was said that in a “rare moment of collusion with the Convict women, the ladies in the Governor’s party could not control their laughter.”
http://www.convictcreations.com/culture/facts.htm
August 20 2008 06:10 am
Cat @
classy
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