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Forum Addresses Soaring Internet Drug Trafficking

In a recent World Forum Against Drugs conference, experts warned that Web based Drug trafficking is soaring and is far more challenging and dangerous than traditional trafficking.

"Buying drugs on the Internet is really easy. You only need an Internet cafe, a credit card, and it's done," says Daniel Altmeyer, an Interpol officer. "It's a new kind of audience, helping new people to try many new things." The web has become a perilous minefield for pharmaceutical products, the experts said.

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