From: [w--li--h] at [ix.netcom.com](William House )
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Subject: Newt's Drug War Death Sentence doesn't work in China.
Date: 6 Jan 1996 22:00:04 GMT

Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrichs' call for vice crime death sentences
for drug offenses in America doesn't bring a drug-free China:
                
         BEIJING, Jan 2 (Reuter) - The number of drug addicts in 
China is rising rapidly and is estimated by experts to have 
reached one million, more than double the number of addicts who 
are registered, a researcher said on Tuesday.  
         ``The number of drug addicts has risen by 100,000 a year 
since 1993,'' Sun Baochen, of the Economics Institute of the 
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said by telephone.  
         ``In 1993 there were 170,000 registered drug addicts, in 
1994 270,000 and in 1995 380,000,'' he said. ``Experts estimate 
the real figure at one million,'' Sun said.  
         ``Before, the most popular drug was opium. Now an increasing 
amount of heroin is consumed.'' he said.  
         One gram (0.035 ounce) of heroin sold for 300-500 yuan 
($38-63.5) in Beijing, Sun added.  
         Drug trafficking had spread from southwest China, which 
borders the Golden Triangle opium growing region, to the north.  
         In recent cases, drugs had been smuggled through China to 
the former Soviet Union and Japan, Sun said.  
         Local governments in China's Yunnan and Guangxi provinces 
have sent experts to the Golden Triangle countries, Laos, Burma 
and Vietnam, to plant cash crops on drug-growing land and help 
end the cultivation, the Guangming Daily said on Tuesday.  
         Farmers in one area could earn 2,300 yuan ($277) per 0.0667 
hectare (0.16 acre) from growing tea and 2,000 yuan ($241) per 
0.0667 hectare from growing tobacco, compared with 1,200 yuan 
($145) from growing opium, the newspaper said.  
         From 1991 to September 1995, China dealt with 125,000 drugs 
cases, arrested 189,000 criminals, seized 15.8 tonnes of heroin, 
10.6 tonnes of opium, 3.4 tonnes of marijuana and 2.3 tonnes of 
amphetamines, official figures show.  
         In a two-month campaign in mid-1995, 101 criminals were 
executed for drug trafficking. The death penalty is given to 
anyone caught with more than 1,000 grams (35 ounces) of opium or 
50 grams (1.75 ounces) of heroin, official reports say.  

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   World Drug War III

   A War by Governments on their Citizens.

   With the Popes' permision.

Drug War Nazis Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton - what's the Difference?

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