Drug trafficking is arguably among the most lucrative illicit businesses.  Several international treaties from the Hague Convention (1912) to the U.N. Convention (1988) as well as nation led initiatives structure global antinarcotic regime. However this regime has suffered from problems.  Its legitimacy and credibility is gradually due to its ineffectiveness and incompatibility spreading from the asymmetry of anti-narcotics policies on regional, national, and global levels.