InSightCrime: "The Justice Department's annual report on the U.S. drug trade provides new data, but tells the same old story: the government's drug policy is not working.
In the past five years, only two National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) reports have set out any progress in the U.S. "drug war." The 2008 and 2009 reports maintained that cocaine availability was dropping in the U.S., causing the drug's street price to go up. Cocaine shortages allegedly persisted in 2010, even though the Justice Department observed that the overall availability of drugs -- including marijuana, heroin, methaphetamine and MDMA -- was increasing.
This year's National Drug Threat Assessment report (pdf) confirms InSight Crime's previous observation that the NDIC's findings -- specifically those concerning cocaine price declines -- do not represent significant progress. The latest data shows that the price of cocaine has settled, and even begun to drop slightly, suggesting that supply is stable."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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