to avoid the spectacle of a heavy-handed governmental repression of marijuana producers in the United States; an action that could easily cause political trouble for the Administration. The facts are, however, that approximately four-fifths of the illicit drugs consumed in the United States is marijuana, and that about four-fifths of the marijuana consumed in the United States is grown in this country. Nevertheless, 70 percent of the anti-drug money spent by the United States government is directed toward foreign countries (Duzan, p. 10). In the early years of the Clinton Administration, President Clinton said that the United States government will begin to emphasize the reduction in American drug demand in governmental anti-drug efforts, as opposed to the Bush/ Reagan emphasis on the control of foreign supply. However, within those early years no significant change in the anti-drug funding ratios occurred.
Other major actors stakeholders in the United States government anti-drug effort in South America includes American weapons manufacturers (Duzan, p. 12). Four-fifths of the arms purchased by South American drug kingpins are produced and sold by American manufacturers (Duzan, p. 12). These other major actors stakeholders also included major American chemical manufacturers (Duzan, p. 12). Chemical products manufacturers in the United States supply South American drug laboratories with approximately one-third of the chemicals used in the processing of drug plants into street drugs (Duzan, p. 12).
The United States armed forces, however, remain as the actor stakeholder with the most to gain financially from the American anti-drug effort in South America (Lane, Waller, Larmer, and Katel, 1992, p. 18). Although the role for the Department
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