“…For sure, one might argue that the view expressed by Senator Kerry may not have been exclusive to the 1980s and 1990s alone, but also applicable to recent times Nadelmann, 2006, Wyler, 2009:2). While different views exist on the strategies of narcotics control 110 (Gerber and Jensen, 2001: 7), it is widely believed that one of the reasons for the relentless effort by the US in the global narcotics control is the fact that the major supply of narcotic drugs into the US comes from outside the US (Bewley-Taylor, 2006,1999a. In effect, the US has for many decades led the international counternarcotics control (supply-reduction) programs on drug growers, processing centers, and transit points in many of the source countries (see appendix 4) while the domestic control programs focus on the disruption of the distribution networks and users as shown in figure 5.1.…”