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Article: Source Countries for Illicit Drugs
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- Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
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SOURCE COUNTRIES FOR ILLICIT DRUGS
The 1987 Omnibus Drug Bill requires the U.S. Department of State to develop a list of all major illicit drug-producing and drug-transit countries. Inclusion on the list has an immediate effect, because sanctions include cutting off foreign assistance, other than humanitarian and counternarcotics aid. In addition, the U.S. will block loans by the World Bank to countries that are included on the list.
Major illicit drug producing country
is defined in the statute as any country producing "during a fiscal year five (5) metric tons or more of Opium or opium derivative, 500 metric tons or more of coca, and 500 metric tons or more of Marijuana." (One metric ...