Some observers have suggested that illicit drug use has become so widespread that fans expect it.
Past month use of any illicit drug increased among high school seniors (from 21.9% to 25.2%).
Five pilots from Lion Air have been arrested for illicit drug use in the past two years.
Britain continues to have a worse record for illicit drug use than any of its European neighbours.
Instead, Google used a third-party company that pharmacy regulators and others say often failed to catch illicit drug sellers.
Some Cuban-Americans have their own ideas, citing cash obtained from illicit drug trafficking.
In other cases, we relied on expert opinion, like in linking New Orleans' leading murder rate to its illicit drug trade.
However, there have been concerns about "leakage" to the illicit drug trade.
In the absence of enormous wealth generated by illicit drug smuggling, their services will not be replicated upon their incarceration or execution.
FORBES: Intensify The War On Drugs -- In A Radically New Form
But several groups subsequently told Google and the other search engines the system failed to stop illicit drug sellers from advertising on its network.
Although illicit drug use has been declining in the UK, long-term problem drug use and drug-related deaths are not decreasing, says the British Medical Association.
The U.S. has some 60 million smokers, 20 million alcoholics and alcohol abusers, and 21.2 million illicit drug users (over seven million of whom are addicts).
FORBES: Bill Bennett: Still a Drug Warrior After All These Years
As long as cannabis distribution is controlled by organised criminals, consumers of the most popular illicit drug will continue to come into contact with sellers of addictive drugs.
Apparently, Souder has had some experience investigating illicit drug operations.
Government resources could be better spent on the enforcement of other sanctions, such as illicit drug trade from Columbia, rather than the search for contraband cigars and rum.
FORBES: It's Time For The U.S. To End Its Senseless Embargo Of Cuba
Uribe's efforts have been focused on combating all the armed groups that control all facets of illicit drug production in Colombia, particularly the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Almost 40 percent of adults 18 to 20 years of age, about one-third of 21- to 25-year-olds and a quarter of 26- to 29-year-olds reported using an illicit drug in the past year.
CNN: CDC: 'Young invincibles' have significant health concerns
Illicit drug use by young people has been decreasing since the mid 1990s, but the rate of decline in cannabis use throughout most of the last decade has been slow, official statistics show.
BBC: Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims
But one former congressional aide, Cass Weiland, a deeply experienced investigator into such matters, suspects that the amount that securities crooks and con men currently rake in approaches what the underworld reaps from illicit drug dealings.
"These groups foster violence and instability...in an attempt to advance their political agendas, and largely finance their operations through the illicit drug trade, " Rodney Benson, chief of intelligence for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said in congressional testimony last year.
The National Institutes of Health became so concerned about the increasing numbers of boomer addicts that it issued a consumer alert this year, its first, on prescription and illicit drug abuse signs and dangers on its website NIHSeniorHealth.gov.
In Congressional testimony in 2004 and 2005, Google executives said they used "trusted" third-party verification services to ensure they weren't accepting ads from illicit drug sellers, and that the company had a dedicated team enforcing its policies for online pharmacy ads.
We decided to strengthen efforts to prevent and combat other transnational crimes, such as illicit drug trafficking, trafficking in persons, people smuggling, money laundering, arms smuggling, sea piracy, armed robbery against ships, cybercrime and other forms of international economic crime in accordance with national laws and regulations.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
Popular in Mexico, and sometimes linked to the illicit drug trade, the skeleton saint known as La Santa Muerte in recent years has found a robust and diverse following north of the border: immigrant small business owners, artists, gay activists and the poor, among others many of them non-Latinos and not all involved with organized religion.
Your honest report of how this country dismantled a large illicit-drug industry capable of churning out 250 tonnes of cocaine a year deserves praise.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that the Atlanta-based company would also "take steps" to block illicit online drug dealers from using their delivery service.
But somebody in the illicit world of drug abuse read his research and synthesized that drug into tablets for street use.
But U.S. officials and Afghan police have long suspected New Ansari of being a key cog in the Afghanistan corruption machine that is fueled by mountains of aid money and illicit funds earned by drug lords and the Taliban.
FORBES: U.S. Sanctions Prominent Afghan Bankers Linked To Corruption
Outright criminalization only drives the demand for the drug to the illicit market.
Due to nefarious transactions and threats of such funds underwriting terrorists, drug cartels and illicit gambling, money transfers have received much attention post-9-11.
应用推荐