Russia Increasing Role in International Drug Prohibition

... Conference President Putin emphasised the necessity of combating ‘all kinds of drugs’, and asserted the liberalisation of global drug policy to be a ‘dangerous path’.[5] Meanwhile, the head of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian ... ... 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....