Even the Draconian anti-drug laws in America have not stemmed the flow of drugs.

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Indonesia has some of the toughest anti-drug laws in the world, but BBC correspondents say executions rarely take place.

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Its platform is not unlike that of far-right Christian conservatives an insistence that America was founded as a Christian nation, a call for America's withdrawal from the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organisation, the military sealing of America's borders against illegal immigrants, the end of anti-gun laws, drug tests for people on welfare.

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