Collateral damage of War on Drugs

Posted on December 19th, 2009 in Letters to the Editor

Collateral damage of War on Drugs

More problems with lack of regulation:

“Cocaine Laced With Cow-Worming Drug Sickens Americans

“Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — Two-thirds of cocaine smuggled into the U.S. is laced with a cattle-worming drug linked to a rare immune disorder in a rash of cases, a report says.

“The veterinary drug, Levamisole, was connected to new cases of the immune disorder agranulocytosis in Canada a year ago. Public health officials in New Mexico and Washington now blame tainted cocaine for a cluster of 21 cases of the illness, including one death, according to the weekly morbidity and mortality report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta”.

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