UN General Assembly
1986

My country lies on the route of the most dangerous traffic that the Western Hemisphere has experienced this century: the drug run to the United States of America. In the process of our being used as a trans-shipment point, some of the cargo has been left on our shores, promoting drug abuse and encouraging crime by the lure of big money. We have all seen the injurious effects of narcotics on societies - the flower of youth emaciated and withered before it has had a chance to bloom, minds reduced to inarticulate cabbages, life snuffed out even before it has had a chance to sparkle. We are all painfully aware of the injury to economic development which is done by drug abuse among the work force in developing countries. Larger and more powerful States cannot sustain the waste of its human resources. How, then, could we in small States, with fewer people, cope with so perilous a problem?