Russia Increasing Role in International Drug Prohibition

... international policy for dealing with dangerous drugs. Crucially, the United States has historically been the central advocate of global drug prohibition. In the early years of the twentieth century the United States pushed for prohibition whilst the colonial powers ... ... addicts, has undeniably minimised drug trafficking. Opium production in 1906/7, for example, reached an estimated forty one thousand metric tonnes -- almost five times more than a century later -- at a time when the world population remained below two billion....