The wholesale interdiction of narcotic drugs, too, has been responsible for an enormous amount of ancillary crime and corruption.

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Indeed, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has called attention to this issue in a recent report to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

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Thursday, 5 November, to consider the results of the high-level segment of the fifty-second session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and conclude its consideration of the Report of the Human Rights Council on its Twelfth Special Session.

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The United States of America and the Russian Federation intend to increase cooperation in addressing the world drug problem, so as to radically reduce production and consumption of illicit drugs, as affirmed by resolutions of the UN General Assembly and the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

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Whereas legitimate Mexican traders have free access to America and Canada via the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA), drug smugglers are granted tariff-free entry to every country in the world thanks to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which prohibits the regulation or taxation of their product.

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This increase was driven primarily by drug overdose deaths from the non-medical use of legal pharmaceutical drugs, particularly narcotic pain relievers.

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Mr Morales, who heads his country's union of coca growers, has been critical in the past of US counter-narcotic programmes in Bolivia, repeatedly stating that the fight against drugs is driven by geopolitical interests.

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