NYT: Six-year, $4.7b effort to slash Colombia's coca crop has left price, quality, availability of cocaine on US streets unchanged

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/NY...lash_0818.html

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Published: Friday August 18, 2006

A six-year, $4.7 billion effort to slash Colombia's coca crop has done little, according to an article slated for Saturday's New York Times, RAW STORY has learned.

"The latest campaign in America's long war on drugs -- a six-year, $4.7 billion effort to slash Colombia's coca crop -- has left the price, quality and availability of cocaine on American streets virtually unchanged," reports Juan Forero for The Times.

"The effort, known as Plan Colombia, had a specific goal of halving this country's coca crop in five years," the article continues.

"That has not happened," Forero writes. "Instead, drug policy experts say, coca, the essential ingredient for cocaine, has been redistributed to smaller and harder-to-reach plots, adding to the cost and difficulty of the drug war."