ABSTRACT
The global drug trade concerns not only the use and abuse of substances that circulate through geographic spaces, but also involves military/terrorist activities, economic development, and indigenous and ethnic minority human rights in production regions. Drug production and eradication efforts locally impact the stability of nation states as well as relations between states (McCoy 1991, Bagley and Walker III 1994). Drug production and efforts to halt it often distort national and local development efforts (Smith 1992), and provoke human rights violations (Sanabria 1992, Kent 1993). Drug profits support governments, insurgent movements, and terrorists both locally and in areas far removed from the source region.
