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New Zealand: UN says NZ emerging transit point for drugs

New Zealand Radio

Wednesday 01 Mar 2006

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A United Nations report suggests New Zealand is increasingly being used
as a major transit point for drugs being smuggled into the United States
and Australia.

The report comes a fortnight after three people were arrested at
Auckland International Airport, allegedly trying to smuggle about 500gm
of liquid cocaine through New Zealand.

The annual report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)
says there has been a marked increase in seizures of drugs in both
Australia and New Zealand, coming mainly from China.

It says the drugs include ecstasy, cocaine and crystal methamphetamine,
or P.
Not likely to disappear

The manager for drug investigations at Customs, Simon Williamson, says
the problem is unlikely to disappear in the short term.

He says drug smugglers are only interested in the monetary side, and do
not recognise international borders.

Mr Williamson says another problem highlighted by the report is the
increasing use and manufacture of crystal methamphetamine in New Zealand.

The report says New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Samoa
have serious problems with cannabis abuse and the manufacture of
amphetamine stimulants is a growing problem in the region.

The INCB also says in some parts of the world the abuse of prescription
drugs is beginning to rival the use of cocaine or heroin.

It says the non-medical use of prescription drugs such as painkillers is
particularly alarming in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

President Hamid Ghodse says he fears that with the increased use of
illegal Internet-based pharmacies, the trend could spread to other parts
of the world.

The report also says programmes to replace illegal drug crops with legal
crops, particularly opium poppies and coca leaves grown by farmers in
developing nations, has not been working well.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/bulletins/radionz/200603012108/1055500

 

 

 

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