In Latin America, the pacts would contribute to economic growth, shake off dependence on the narcotics trade and cement relationships in a region where Washington's influence is increasingly trumped by the well-oiled diplomacy of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.
We're still weaning him off of the narcotic, which is probably the most difficult part, but he's almost finished with that, and the more we weaned him, the more we got our son back, so that's very hopeful.
According to Omar, he and Levy are both integral parts of the drug trade that is crushing the poorer areas of the city; they both make their living by "feeding off" the criminal narcotics industry, he argues.
At which point, the last vestiges of the narcotic wear off, revealing to Arthur that he and his colleagues have actually just bludgeoned a giant rat, showering his compatriots in blood and gore, which they blithely gobble as if it were sweets.
Poppy farmers are being forced to guard their crops against the drug-addled birds, who get high off the narcotic effects of the plant.
In order "to restore the dignity of the coca leaf", the Bolivian government launched an international campaign in 2006 to depenalise coca and have it taken off the list of narcotics drawn up by the Vienna convention in 1961.
Mr. Bush's choice of the conservative Mr. Walters to head the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy was criticized by groups that want to emphasize curing drug addiction rather than punishing drug offenders or cutting off the supply of narcotics.
It followed therefore that the removal of those smart people at the top, not to mention the experts in logistics, would render the cartel ineffective and so cut off the flow of narcotics to the United States.
My mother had just come home from one of her therapy sessions and shared with me that she would be weaning off the many prescribed narcotics to which she had become addicted.
With some variations, they advocate cutting off the sup ply of narcotics at the source and conducting extensive programs in drug education and rehabilitation.
