Saturday - November 05, 2005
Stoned On Facts
The world is still an awful, dangerous place to live. Some people can’t handle the pressure and some are just weak. Others are determined to make as much money as possible off of the weak links in society. No, I’m not talking about Eli Lilly and Pfizer who make billions selling Prozac and Zanax respectively. I’m talking about the Colombian cartels and the Afghan warlords and the Burmese farmers but especially your local pusher man and the organization behind him which gets 76% of the profit on drug sales ....
- 200 million, or 5 percent of the world’s population—number of people worldwide aged 15-64 who have used drugs at least once in the last 12 months.
- $13 billion—estimated value of global illicit drug market in 2003 at production level.
- $94 billion—estimated value at the wholesale level.
- $322 billion—estimated value at retail level.
- $70.5 billion—estimated value of cocaine alone at retail level.
- $17 billion—value of exports worldwide of wine in 2003.
- $6 billion—value of exports worldwide of coffee.
- $65.2 million—1972 Drug Enforcement Administration budget.
- 2,775—1972 number of DEA employees.
- $2.1 billion—2005 DEA budget.
- 10,894—2005 number of DEA employees.
- 44 percent—North America’s share of worldwide drug purchases.
- 33 percent—Europe’s share of worldwide drug purchases.
- 76 percent—share of total drug profits generated in industrialized countries.
- 1 percent—share of profits earned by producers of cocaine and heroin in developing nations.
- 125,921—number of emergency room visits in U.S. in second half of 2003 in which cocaine was a factor.
- Movie producer Don Simpson; actor River Phoenix; John Entwistle, bassist for The Who; comedian John Belushi; comedian Chris Farley; Bobby Sheehan, bassist for Blues Traveler; University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias—celebrities who died from cocaine or cocaine mixed with other drugs.
- Sulfuric acid, gasoline or kerosene, ether, ammonia, acetone—substances used to convert coca leaves into cocaine.
Sources: U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime; Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN); DEA
Posted by The Skipper on 11/05/2005 at 01:58 PM
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