Drug trafficking is a global illicit trade involving the cultivation, making, distribution and sale of substances, which are subject to drug prohibition laws. My view on the subject is a political view. The subject itself is rather controversial. Drug trafficking is a key part of this research. For the North American market, cocaine is usually transported from Colombia to Mexico or Central America by sea and then towards by land to the United States and Canada. Cocaine is sent to Europe mostly by sea, often in container shipments. Colombia remains the main source of the cocaine found in Europe, but direct shipments from Peru and the State of Bolivia are far more common than in the United States market At present levels, worldwide heroin consumption and seizures represent an annual flow of 450 tons of heroin into the heroin market. This is an amount that is fed to approximately 17 million people. As a result of this, political figures have started the war on drugs. The Republican Party promotes an aggressive approach on the war, planning to submit anyone associated in the drug trade to the death penalty. Democrats however, plan to prevent drug trade by feeding the children propaganda against drugs. Both methods seem both effective, but also a bit immoral from my perspective. While I do agree that drug lords should be punished, I do not submit to killing them nor to feeding children with biased information. The way the republicans se it drug abuse and addiction ruin lives everyday. There can be no debate about this pressing issue. Every parent and guardian has a responsibility to educate children and teenagers about the dangers and addiction of drugs as well as the threat of both physical harm and potential death, as well as... ... middle of paper ... ...y the drug war. To provide healthcare, and acceptable living conditions. While I see this is asking for too much, maybe we start by helping these innocent people, who are suffering for something they did not ask for. Works Cited United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (n.d.). Drug trafficking. Retrieved January 26, 2014, from http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/drug-trafficking/ Republican Party on Drugs. (n.d.). Republican Party on Drugs. Retrieved January 27, 2014, from http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Republican_Party_Drugs.htm Drugs and Crime as a Threat to Development . (n.d.). United Nations. Retrieved January 27, 2014, from http://www.un.org/en/ga/president/66/Issues/drugs/drugs-crime.shtml Democratic Party on Drugs. (n.d.). Democratic Party on Drugs. Retrieved January 27, 2014, from http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Democratic_Party_Drugs.htm
Liberal and Conservative Views on the War on Drugs Drug use has been an ongoing problem in our country for decades. The use of drugs has been the topic of many political controversies throughout many years. There has been arguments that are for legalizing drugs and the benefits associated with legalization. Also, there are some who are opposed to legalizing drugs and fear that it will create more problems than solve them. Conservatives and liberals often have different opinions for controversial topics such as “the war on drugs,” but it is necessary to analyze both sides in order to gain a full understanding of their beliefs and to decide in a change in policy is in order.
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In this paper I will evaluate America's War on Drugs. More specifically, I will outline our nation's general drug history and look critically at how Congress has influenced our current ineffective drug policy. Through this analysis I hope to show that drug prohibition policies in the United States, for the most part, have failed. Additionally, I will highlight and evaluate the influences acting on individual legislators' decisions to continue support for these ineffective policies as a more general demonstration of Congress' role in the formation of our nation's drug policy strategy. Finally, I will conclude this analysis by outlining the changes I feel necessary for future progress to be made. Primary among these changes are a general promotion of drug education and the elimination of our current system's many de-legitimating hypocrisies.
Drug trafficking is a prohibited, global trade that involves the production, the distribution, and the sales of drugs. It is a topic that has become a very large issue all over the world. It also has had a very big effect on many different countries because they often depend on the business that the drug trafficking creates. Since it has become such a problem, there have been many different efforts to put a stop to drug trafficking by different enforcement agencies. A website about drug statistics, drugabuse.net, indicated that the Drug Enforcement Agency or DEA, as it is well known as, makes over thirty thousand arrests each year dealing with the illegal sales or distribution of drugs. It is also believed that Mexico’s economy would shrink by over sixty-three percent if they lost their drug trafficking industry. There are many different tribulations like this that drug trafficking has created. Many people see it as such a vital asset to some countries, so it has emerged as an extremely big business that brings in a boatload of money. Just like any other immense problem, drug trafficking has its causes and effects
In Jeanette Schmidt’s article, Transporting Cocaine states, “Colombian cartels would pay the Mexican groups as much as $1,000/kilo to smuggle cocaine into the United States” (Schmidt, 2). The Colombian cartels would then pick up the drugs and resume distribution and sales efforts, making personal profits that are unrecorded. In order to seize these individuals who are growing in power and numbers, the U.S. must control the connections between Mexico and Columbia. Mexico is the biggest transporter amongst Columbia and the U.S. because it shares a border with the U.S. This increasingly poisonous drug trafficking leads to drug dealers...
Concerned authorities have focused essentially on criminalization and punishment, to find remedies to the ever-increasing prevalent drug problem. In the name of drug reducing policies, authorities endorse more corrective and expensive drug control methods and officials approve stricter new drug war policies, violating numerous human rights. Regardless of or perhaps because of these efforts, UN agencies estimate the annual revenue generated by the illegal drug industry at $US400 billion, or the equivalent of roughly eight per cent of total international trade (Riley 1998). This trade has increased organized/unorganized crime, corrupted authorities and police officials, raised violence, disrupted economic markets, increased risk of diseases an...
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Drugs and crime have always been linked together. Generally for good reasons. Many organized criminal groups are associated with the smuggling of hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin into the United States. Such groups are the Medellin Cartel and the Mafia are notorious for smuggling ha...
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The longest war isn’t one fought with weapons for freedom, land, or beliefs. It was a war against the use of illegal substances. The War on Drugs is a term that has been used for many years to describe the fight against illegal substances. However, time after time this war has failed. There has been a plethora of ideas on how to ultimately end this war. However, according to many polls, the drug problem in America is a rising problem.
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