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U.S. Government Involvement
The U.S. federal government is vocal opponent of the drug industry however state laws vary greatly, and in some cases, defy federal laws. Despite the US government official position against the drug trade, U.S. government agents and assets was been implicated in the drug trade.

Highly decorated U.S. military Special Forces veteran, Colonel Bo Gritz, has accused U.S. of collaborating with, and support Manuel Noriega in his drug trafficking operations. On his book Called To Serve, Gritz details his role as a key U.S. Government employ tasked with protecting the USA’s relationship with Noriega.

Contrary to its official goals, the U.S. has been suppressing research on drug usage. For example, for 1995, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) announces in a pressrelease the publication of the results of the largest global study on cocaine use ever undertakenHowever a decision in the World Health Assembly banned the publication of the study. In the sixth meeting of the B committee the US representative threatened that "If WHO activities relating to drugs failed to reinforce proven drug control approaches, funds for the relevant programmes should be curtailed. This led to the decision to discontinue publication. A part of the study released.

1989, the United States intervened in Panama with the goal of disrupt the drug trade coming from Panama. The Indian government has several covert operations in the Middle East and Indian subcontinent to keep a track of various drug dealers. Opium production in Afghanistan is a current problem in the development of a licit economy for that Conty.