Control of Illicit Traffic in Dangerous Drugs (CRS Report for Congress)
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| Release Date |
Jan. 20, 1984 |
| Report Number |
IB76061 |
| Authors |
Harry Hogan, Government Division |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
Summary:
Suppression of illicit traffic is only one aspect of the general FederalGovernment effort to prevent the abuse of narcotics and other dangerousdrug;, but in political significance it is undoubtedly paramount. Variousapproaches to the problem have been suggested and tried since the firstexplicitly anti-opium law was enacted in 1887. Major current proposals andareas of investigation concern appropriate penalties for traffickingoffenses, the release of accused and convictea traffickers on bail andthrough other release procedures, general sentencing reform, exclusionaryrule reform, the organization and policies of the Federal enforcement effort,the financial activities of drug traffickers, forfeiture of traffickerassets, marihuana erad~catlon programs -- both foreign and domestic, and waysof securing maximum cooperat~on ln traffic control measures from theCountries figuring in either the production of dangerous drugs or theirtransport into the United States.
