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- adjective Intended to combat
narcotics trade or production
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Examples
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Jose Reyes Baeza and Mexican Army Gen. Felipe Espitia, the head of military's antinarcotics operations here, met with top leaders of the Juarez cartel at a ranch and, along with Patricia Gonzalez, ordered the assassinations of prominent journalists and community leaders.
Mexican drug cartel forces lawyer's video confessions William Booth 2010
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Rene Sanabria , former head of Bolivia's main antinarcotics unit, could face a life sentence if found guilty in U.S. district court in Miami of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the U.S., according to the penalty sheet attached to Mr. Sanabria's indictment.
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The Wa are believed to be far better-armed and better-organized, thanks in part to revenue from drug trafficking, according to U.S. government and international antinarcotics officials.
Myanmar Moves Troops to Borders A Wall Street Journal Reporter 2010
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The Wa are believed to be far better-armed and better-organized, thanks in part to revenue from drug trafficking, according to U.S. government and international antinarcotics officials.
Myanmar Moves Troops to Borders A Wall Street Journal Reporter 2010
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Mr. Chávez has hampered the Drug Enforcement Administration's antinarcotics efforts in Venezuela, and he has close ties to Colombia's drug-funded communist guerrillas, who operate with impunity in Venezuela.
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Although marijuana prohibition is commonly supposed to have begun with the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, cannabis had already been outlawed in many states before World War I during the first, Progressive Era wave of antinarcotics legislation.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Step Toward Sanity on Medical Marijuana 2009
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To combat these networks on both sides of the border, the U.S. and China should propose a new NATO-China antinarcotics program.
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Such shipments have soared more than fourfold to 260 metric tons in 2007 from 60 metric tons in 2004 as the government of President Hugo Chávez has systematically slashed its antinarcotics cooperation efforts with the U.S., according to the report.
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In Bolivia, where the government was overthrown in 1980 by a group of so-called cocaine colonels, the commander of the special antinarcotics police resigned under pressure for alleged involvement in drug trafficking.
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In the face of a deteriorating security situation, the first phase of the SDP, approved for FY 2007, concentrated on improving the policing and antinarcotics capabilities of the FC and assisting the Pakistan army's commandos, the Special Services Group's operational capacity in the region with helicopter support.
Shuja Nawaz: Rethinking the War in Pakistan's Borderlands 2008
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