This Is Total War

[Atheist-Lite]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/ju ... r-on-drugs

Russia defies growing consensus with declaration of 'total war on drugs'

Drug dealers are to be "treated like serial killers" and could be sent to forced labour camps under harsh laws being drawn up by Russia's Kremlin-controlled parliament.

Boris Gryzlov, the speaker of the state duma, the lower house, said a "total war on drugs" was needed to stem a soaring abuse rate driven by the flow of Afghan heroin through central Asia to Europe.

Russia has as many as 6 million addicts (one in 25 people). Every year 100,000 people die from using drugs, Gryzlov said in a newspaper. The scale of the problem "threatens Russia's gene pool", he said. "We are standing on the edge of a precipice. Either we squash drug addiction or it will destroy us."

This year, President Dmitry Medvedev said drug abuse was cutting up to three percentage points off economic growth.

Injecting drug use is also accelerating Russia's Aids crisis because – unlike most other European countries – methadone treatment is banned and needle exchange programmes are scarce, meaning the virus spreads quickly from addict to addict via dirty syringes. An estimated one in 100 Russians are HIV positive.

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[klr]

Will this apply to the manufacture and sale of Vodka?

Seriously: Alcohol abuse is a huge problem in Mother Russia,.

[Pensioner]

Will this apply to the manufacture and sale of Vodka?

Seriously: Alcohol abuse is a huge problem in Mother Russia,.

The good stuff is made in Poland.

[Feck]

The Russian mafia gave the cannabis business in the UK to the Chinese a few years ago seems like there was more money to be made at home ?

[klr]

Will this apply to the manufacture and sale of Vodka?

Seriously: Alcohol abuse is a huge problem in Mother Russia,.

The good stuff is made in Poland.

Oh cripes ... another invasion of Poland is in the works.

[laklak]