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2 unusual facts about Drug trade


Drug trade

Pharmaceutical industry, the manufacture and sale of medical treatment chemicals

Illegal drug trade, the manufacture and sale of illicit psychoactive substances


Bezerra da Silva

His music often deals with political and social issues, touching on gang violence, the drug trade, and the law.


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Avenida Revolución

The hard rock band Chickenfoot, featuring Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony (musician), and Chad Smith have also recorded a song called Avenida Revolución, which is about Latin American violence and border wars involving the drug trade.

Brooks Pharmacy

As a result, that same year, Revco sold all of the New England Brooks stores to the Quebec-based Jean Coutu Group, which had already been operating stores in Rhode Island and Massachusetts under the Maxi Drug and Douglas Drug trade names.

CIA activities in Peru

In 2001, while the CIA was assisting the Peruvian Air Force in the War on Drugs, the CIA incorrectly assessed that a small plane was involved in the drug trade, leading to the death of a U.S. Christian missionary, Roni Bowers, and her daughter.

Cox's Road, Hong Kong

James Cox was a drug trade merchant who did smuggling, selling and doing deals with opium.

Crime in Italy

Cities such as Turin, Milan, Monza Brescia, Padua, Vicenza, Venice( Mestre ), Verona, Bologna, Genoa in the North frequently suffer a wide diversity of frequent offences ranging from extensive drug trade, homicides, etc.

India–Nigeria relations

After the riots, Goa's Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar ordered police to find and expel Nigerians living illegally in Goa and Goan MLA Shantaram Naik said: "Nigerians misuse education schemes, violate the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), indulge in the drug trade and yet try to boss over Goans, which no civilised society would tolerate."

Kenneth Jackson

Kenneth A. Jackson, businessman in Baltimore, Maryland, with past connections to the illegal drug trade

Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town

Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town is a book by Nick Reding which documents the drug culture of Oelwein, Iowa and how it ties into larger issues of rural flight and small town economic decline placed in the historic context of the drug trade, particularly the manufacture and consumption of methamphetamine.

Monica Rawling

A morally strong woman, she tried to redeem Vic Mackey and Ronnie Gardocki by involving them in a controversial asset forfeiture program designed to clean up Farmington, by destroying the neighborhood drug trade.

Narcoterrorism

Although Al Qaeda is often said to finance its activities through drug trafficking, the 9/11 Commission Report notes that "while the drug trade was a source of income for the Taliban, it did not serve the same purpose for al Qaeda, and there is no reliable evidence that bin Laden was involved in or made his money through drug trafficking." The organization gains most of its finances through donations, particularly those by "wealthy Saudi individuals".

Nuevo Continente

In 2004, though, Aero Continente had its approval to operate into the United States withdrawn by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Treasury, as its founder and key person, Fernando Zervallos, had been included in a list of the ten most wanted crime bosses of the illegal drug trade (Specially Designated Nationals).

Oelwein, Iowa

The 2009 book Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick Reding (Bloomsbury Press) documents the drug culture of Oelwein and how it ties into larger issues of rural flight and small town economic decline placed in the historic context of the drug trade.

Sumedh Singh Saini

Appointed very soon after a new government had been formed, involving the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Saini has been tasked with reducing crime and inhibiting the activities of people involved in the drug trade.