The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11 - by Peter Dale Scott in Lobster Magazine
Narcotics are estimated to be worth between $500 billion and $1 trillion a year, an amount, according to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in remarks to a United Nations General Assembly session in June 2003, that is greater than the global oil and gas industry, and twice as large as the overall automobile industry.