Coca leaf producers toss coca leaves being given away for free during an event commemorating the tradition of coca leaf chewing in La Paz, Bolivia, on Jan. 14. Coca growers held street demonstrations in La Paz and Cochabamba to celebrate that their centuries-old Andean practice of chewing or otherwise ingesting coca leaves, a mild stimulant in its natural form, will now be universally recognized as legal within Bolivia.

A man chews coca leaves in La Paz, on Jan. 14, as indigenous people from Quecha and Aymara celebrate Bolivia's re-admittance to the U.N. anti-narcotics convention.

A man looks at a bottle of an energy drink made with coca leaves during a celebration in La Paz on Jan. 14.

Bolivian President Evo Morales delivers a speech during a celebration for Bolivia's re-admittance to the U.N. anti-narcotics convention in Cochabamba on Jan. 14.

A member of the National Police stand guards during the incineration of illegal drugs in Panama City on Nov. 23.

Anti-narcotics police officers destroy confiscated drugs before incinerating the them in Panama City on Nov. 23.

Aceh government officials destroy drugs that were seized from drug traffickers at the Aceh police headquarters, Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, Sept. 18.

Aceh police chief Inspector General Iskandar Hasan throws a package of marijuana into the fire as officials destroy drugs that were seized from drug traffickers at the Aceh police headquarters, Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, Sept. 18.

Aceh government officials destroy drugs that were seized from drug traffickers at the Aceh police headquarters, Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, Sept. 18.

A man smokes crack in the Manguinhos slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 7. Some drug bosses say they have stopped selling crack because it destabilizes their communities, making it harder to control areas long abandoned by the government. City authorities take credit for the change, arguing that drug gangs are trying to create a distraction and make police back off their offensive to take back the slums.

Traffickers and users gather at a drug selling point in the Antares slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Traffickers sell drugs in the Antares slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

People gather in an area known as "Crackland" inside the Manguinhos slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A trafficker test fires a riffle in the Mandela slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Traffickers sell drugs in the Antares slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A masked and armed trafficker at a drug selling point that no longer sells crack in the Mandela slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Crack users gather under a bridge in the Antares slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A crack user leaves a crack house near the Manguinhos slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

An Orthodox monk waits to be examined inside a medical center which has been set up by volunteers at the headquarters of the Athens Medical Association with the help of the Greek Orthodox Church in Athens on May 25, 2012.

Patients ask for help inside a Doctors of the World medical center in Athens on May 31, 2012.

Patients wait outside a medical center run by the Greek delegation of Doctors of the World in Athens on May 31, 2012.

Patients wait in front of a Doctors of the World medical center in Athens on May 31, 2012.

A volunteer checks medicines which have been donated by people inside a makeshift pharmacy at a medical center set up by volunteers in the Helliniko suburb of Athens on May 24, 2012.

A pediatrician examines a girl inside a social medical center in the Helliniko suburb of Athens on May 24, 2012.

Clara Wood Rivas, 59, whose son Antonie Brooks Symore, 14, was killed during a drug raid that appears to have mistakenly targeted civilians in a remote jungle area of Honduras, killing four riverboat passengers and injuring four others.

Clara Wood Rivas, right, accompanied by her daughter July, 18, mourns in front of the tomb of her son in Ahuas on May 22, 2012.

Honduran soldiers patrol in Ahuas on May 22, 2012. Following the raid on May 11 Honduran police narcotics forces and men speaking English spent hours searching the small town for a suspected drug trafficker, according to villagers.

The burnt house of an alleged drug dealer know as 'El Renco', one of four homes burned after the raid. "The family and friends of the victims burned the homes because of the narcos," villager Hilaria Zavala said. "This whole mess was their fault ... because of them, we all had to pay."

Wilmer Lucas Walter, 14, rests while recovering in a public hospital from the wounds caused during the attack. On May 11, Wilmer and more than a dozen others dove from a riverboat into the water for cover from Honduran police, who say they were hitting drug traffickers who fired first. Four died.

A dog bites meat drying outside a house in Ahuas on May 22, 2012. Ahuas Mayor Lucio Baquedano, who said all the shooting victims were innocents, said that there is a drug trafficking cell in his town and that the number of clandestine landing strips is not only increasing, but getting closer to populated areas and putting more uninvolved people at risk.

A youth consumes crack on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro on March 19, 2012. Many Brazilian cities now have their own "cracklands," areas of the city where swarms of crack users have converted entire neighborhoods into nocturnal encampments doubling as open-air crack markets.

A combination picture shows a street in Sao Paulo during the day and at night on March 19, 2012.

A drug user consumes crack in the old center of Salvador da Bahia on March 19, 2012.

Crack addicts consume the drug on a street in Sao Paulo on March 20, 2012.

Crack consumers gather in the Gloria neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro on March 19, 2012.

Retired Brazilian police officer Andre Luiz Pinheiro, 50, dressed as superhero Batman, talks to children in a public school in Taubate city in Sao Paulo state March 17, 2012. Pinheiro is helping police patrol the crime-ridden streets of Taubate, in Brazil. He was officially presented in the districts with the highest crime rates in Sao Paulo state. Police captain Warley Takeo, one of the policemen who decided to bring in the character to help them fight drug traffickers, said the measure would bring long-term benefits. Takeo said making a connection between the police and Batman would help children have a clearer idea of good and bad.

A police officer jokes with a boy dressed as Batman, during a visit to a school by retired Brazilian police officer Andre Luiz Pinheiro, 50, who dresses up as Batman, in Taubate city in Sao Paulo state March 17, 2012.

An Indian Pharmacologist examines the reaction of cytotoxic drugs on a mouse inside a containment facility of the Research and Development Centre of Natco Pharma Ltd. in Hyderabad, India, on March 13. India effectively ended Bayer's monopoly on a patented cancer drug Monday, licensing a much cheaper generic under a unique law aimed at keeping costs affordable. In a decision likely to upset Western pharmaceuticals, the patent office approved Natco Pharma Ltd.'s application to produce the kidney and liver cancer treatment sorefinib.

An Indian Pharmacologist removes mice from cages to study the reaction of cytotoxic drugs, inside a containment facility of the Research and Development Centre of Natco Pharma Ltd. in Hyderabad, India, on March 13.

A pharmacologist checks the toxic reaction on a swiss albino inside the bio safety cabinet at Natco Research Center in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, on March 13. India's move to strip German drugmaker Bayer of its exclusive rights to a cancer drug has set a precedent that could extend to other treatments, including modern HIV/AIDS drugs, in a major blow to global pharmaceutical firms, experts say. On Monday, the Indian Patent Office effectively ended Bayer's monopoly for its Nexavar drug and issued its first-ever compulsory license allowing local generic maker Natco Pharma to make and sell the drug cheaply in India.

An Indian scientist works inside a laboratory of the Research and Development Centre of Natco Pharma Ltd. in Hyderabad, India, on March 13.

Policemen and villagers use sticks and grass cutters to destroy a poppy field above the village of Tar-Pu, in the mountains of Shan State, Myanmar, Jan. 27, 2012. Myanmar has dramatically escalated its poppy eradication efforts since September 2011, threatening the livelihoods of impoverished farmers who depend upon opium as a cash crop to buy food.

Soldiers and villagers walk home after destroying the poppy fields above the village of Ho Hwayt, in the mountains of Shan State, Myanmar, Jan. 26, 2012.

Children at a school in the village of Tar-Pu, in the mountains of Shan State, Myanmar, Jan. 27, 2012.

An ethnic Pa-O man takes a bath after meeting with representatives of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Myanmar's police at the village of War Taw, in the mountains of Shan State, Jan. 27, 2012.

A soldier stands in a room full of barrels containing white and yellow powder after a seizure of a small ranch in Tlajomulco de Zuniga, on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico, on Thursday. According to the Mexican army, 15 tons of pure methamphetamine were seized at the ranch, an amount equivalent to half of all meth seizures worldwide in 2009.

A soldier stands in what was identified as "metal reactors" after a seizure of a large clandestine methamphetamine lab at a ranch in Tlajomulco de Zuniga, on the outskirts of Guadalajara.