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This article describes the attempts of American senators to allow American pharmacies and patients to import prescription drugs from other countries at government controlled rates, thus avoiding higher, unregulated prices in the US.

This article explains how drug trafficing in columbia and This trend was coupled with a worsening of the armed conflict, which according to Uribe was due to guerrillas' involvement in the drug trade.

Human trafficking is 3rd largest global crime enterprise, exceded only by drug and arms trafficking, as many of you have heard over and over again " We have some very basic statistic on human trafficking". We've looked at this mainly as a law enforcement issue and as a human rights issue. But it is also an industry. By some estimates, the industry is growing, and the worldwide illegitimate gain from industry is as high as $ 32 billion per year. I think that this topic is relevant to this week "development" topic because it is one of the main worldwide crime, and governments all over the world should be fighting against it and it is one thing to develop.