Illegal drug trade

Panamanian motor vessel Gatun during the largest cocaine bust in United States Coast Guard history (20 tons), off the coast of Panama.

The illegal drug trade or drug trafficking is a global black market and consists of the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of illegal drugs. While some drugs are legal to possess and sell, in most jurisdictions laws do not allow the trade of certain types of drug.

Those drugs involve heroin, cocaine, marijuana or other drugs. Drug traffickers may punished with time in prison for several years. In some countries, the crime carries the death penalty.

Punishment

Several countries use the death penalty to punish people for drug trafficking.

• Afghanistan
• Bangladesh
• Brunei
• China
• Egypt
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Kuwait
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Saudi Arabia
• Singapore
• Somalia
• Sri Lanka
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• Vietnam
• United Arab Emirates
• Zimbabwe

Related pages

• Money laundering
• Whiskey Rebellion

Other websites

• News, information, laws and photos of illegal drugs, narcotics and drug trafficking
• United Nations - Drug Programme
• Geopium: Geopolitics of Illicit Drugs in Asia (English and French)
• United Nations World Drug Report
• Illicit drug issues by country, by the CIA