icant illicit cultivation of cannabis and limited
cultivation of opium poppy and ephedra (for the drug ephedrone);
limited government eradication program; cannabis consumed largely in
the CIS; used as transshipment point for illicit drugs to Russia,
North America, and Western Europe from Southwest Asia; developing
heroin addiction problem

Kenya:
widespread harvesting of small plots of marijuana; transit
country for South Asian heroin destined for Europe and North
America; Indian methaqualone also transits on way to South Africa

Kyrgyzstan:
limited illicit cultivator of cannabis and opium poppy,
mostly for CIS consumption; limited government eradication program;
increasingly used as transshipment point for illicit drugs to Russia
and Western Europe from Southwest Asia

Laos:
world's third-largest illicit opium producer (estimated
cultivation in 1999 - 21,800 hectares, a 16% decrease over 1998;
estimated potential production in 1999 - 140 metric tons, about the
same as in 1998); potential heroin producer; transshipment point for
heroin and methamphetamine produced in Burma; illicit producer of
cannabis

Latvia:
transshipment point for opiates and cannabis from Central
and Southwest Asia to Western Europe and Scandinavia and Latin
American cocaine and some synthetics from Western Europe to CIS;
limited production of illicit amphetamine, ephedrine, and ecstasy
for export

Lebanon:
inconsequential producer of hashish; a Lebanese/Syrian
eradication campaign started in the early 1990s has practically
eliminated the opium and cannabis crops

Liberia:
increasingly a transshipment point for Southeast and
Southwest Asian heroin and South American cocaine for the European
and US markets

Liechtenstein:
multilateral organizations engaged in issuing
international guidelines for financial sector oversight have found
gaps in Liechtenstein's financial services controls that make it
vulnerable to money laundering

Lithuania:
transshipment point for opiates and other illicit drugs
from Southwest Asia, Latin America, and Western Europe to Western
Europe and Scandinavia; limited production of methamphetamine and
ecstasy

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:
increasing transshipment
point for Southwest Asian heroin and hashish; minor transit point
for South American cocaine destined for Europe

Madagascar:
illicit producer of ca