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This evidence suggests that the world’s supply of illegal drugs has grown, despite an increase in drug seizures around the world, according to the report, which was funded in part by Open Society Foundations.
“Clearly these often violent interventions aimed at reducing the drug market don’t work,” said Wood, of the seizures. “You take the drug dealer off the corner, but that doesn’t make the market go away. It just creates an opportunity for somebody else.”
The study analyzed about two decades of data from government databases in consumer markets like the United States and Europe, and in drug-producing regions like Latin America and Afghanistan.
In North America, the price of cannabis dropped by 86 percent between 1990 and 2007, while seizures increased nearly threefold.
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