ABSTRACT
Th e drug problem has existed for centuries, but has never been so serious, so complex, so widespread, and so transactional in nature as we have it today. It has a linear dimension and a horizontal proliferation. It has its roots and branches. It is a local police issue and a matter of international concern. It starts from cultivation and laboratory processing and ends up in money laundering and hospital admissions, with a dozen criminal activities between the two ends (Figure 7.1). It is a crime, an associated crime, and also a source of a number of other crimes, though the relation cannot be so easily established on sound empirical basis.
