Drug Trafficking And The United States

Drug trafficking in the United States has established itself to be one of the most profitable businesses in today’s world (U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, 2004). There is such a high demand as more people buy, use and sell drugs for a variety of reasons, not really knowing all the risk that are at stake. With new laws in affect and more determined citizens of the U.S. everyone can help keep the streets clean. Drug trafficking is at an all-time high and must be brought to a halt.

Substance abuse and consumption have become an epidemic in America. The use of drugs results in countless drug-related deaths and causes states to spend billions of dollars to combat drug trafficking. Drugs are shipped in by sea, air, automobile, and even smuggled in by person. These drugs are supplied by drug cartels. These criminal organizations where formed to promote, control, produce, and distribute narcotic drugs. While these cartels operate from all parts of the world, some of the most infamous are the Mexican and Columbian Cartels. America has put policies into combating drug trafficking, however these policies are not

Drug trafficking has been a major issue not only in this country but across the world.

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This paper will explore multiple scholarly journals and other published articles that will pertain to Drug trafficking and distribution of drugs. The research gathered will all be from online resources located on the schools website and the classes required book pertaining to the curriculum.

Drug trafficking is a major problem in the United States. When this trade reaches third world countries, it usually spreads incredibly fast and law enforcement is more easily corrupted. It is the illegal trade involving cultivation, manufacture, distribution, and the sale of substances which are illegal under the law. The drug trade is estimated to bring in more than $100 billion every year from the U.S. The number of global deaths each year due to illegal drugs is over 200,000.

With globalization of trade, it is simple for crimes between criminals in the U.S and other countries to occur. For example, drug dealers from one country sneaking illegal substances and other contraband into packages and ship it off to the U.S. Drug dealers think and plan this smuggling well, in attempts to successfully enter their product into the country to sell and distribute. In 2016, there were large shipments of narcotics coming from the Caribbean to areas of Southwestern U.S. The task force comprised of the U.S Coast Guard, The Drug Enforcement Administration and other agencies. This task force managed to interfere with drug smuggling from the Bahamas and denied traffickers access to do so. (Homeland Security, 2016) There are also products

The United States has one of the most profitable drug markets in the world. “As such, it attracts the most ruthless, sophisticated, and aggressive drug traffickers” The United States has such a demand for illegal drugs such as cocaine, heroin, marijuana, MDMA, and methamphetamine, that traffickers will do about anything to sneak in the drugs into the country. The majority of the drugs are brought into the country from the border between Mexico and the U.S.A. These drugs are supplied mainly from Mexico, and Colombia. According to the U.S Drug Enforcement Agency, the price of a kilogram of cocaine ranges from $13,000 to $25,000. That is about 2.2 pounds of cocaine. With that kind of profit, we can for sure know that as long as there is demand

Trafficking is also driven by armed groups in two main ways: armed groups recruit or abduct children to use them as combatants. In conflict zones, armed groups recruit or abduct women and girls for forced marriages, domestic work and sexual slavery. Similarly, they recruit or abduct men and boys for forced labor (such as extracting natural resources), and as soldiers or for slavery.

As a result of my experiences with higher academia, I have begun to recognize the inaccurate assumptions that I have made about the drug market from exposure to biased instruction from adults, media, and politics. From this realization, I feel confident in stating that the general public’s knowledge on this illicit economy consists of falsified stereotypes. Information provided throughout this course has presented a proper education regarding where the supply is produced, how drugs are trafficked into different countries, and who distributes illegal substances to users. The nation of Colombia thoroughly demonstrates a country involved in all of the aspects, production, trafficking and street sales, of a drug economy. Through a more comprehensive

Although Cold War may have put an end to tensions, it produced other unforeseen effects such as a significant expansion in the trafficking of illegal drugs across the in home nation’s boundaries. International travel has become easier due to the increasing technology of airports, and as basically made all nations hypothetically borderless. Even though international drug trafficking organizations (DTOs), such as the Cartel in Mexico, have never respected national boundaries, bigger markets for drug production and easier transportation of the drugs, along with increasing drug use in poor income areas, has impacted drug trafficking. Correspondingly, the universal market for drugs, and the volume of sources to provide to the drug market, is developing exponentially around the world. Once referred to as “the American disease”, Drug trafficking has now became a worldwide plague.

become evident in the last few years. More and more states are being drawn into the

Drug trafficking has played a huge role on many people's lives. It is believed to be stimulated by their environments, peers, upbringings and psychological factors.

Drug trafficking has become an increasingly growing problem in the world today. Illegal drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production, distribution, packaging, and sale of illegal substances. Although today’s "War on Drugs" is a modern phenomenon, drug problems have been a common problem throughout history. The market for illegal drugs is massive, when we consider the estimated global drug trade value is worth $321 billion (Vulliamy). The most drug trafficking happens on the border between Mexico and the United States. Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon said, “Our neighbor is the largest consumer of drugs in the world. And everybody wants to sell him drugs through our door and our window”

Over the recent past, there has been major growth in illegal trafficking of humans, firearms and most importantly drugs (UN, 2012). These kinds of trafficking are characterized by greater organisation levels. They are also denoted by the presence of criminal groups and chains. Though these activities are not new, both the geographic area and scale of the present problem is unprecedented. The value of illegal trade in 2009 throughout the world was about $1.3 trillion (Jenner, 2010). Drug smuggling is a major concern wherein it has major adverse effects due to the large illegal profits it produces (Jenner, 2010). In different drug production regions and transit areas, criminal groups disregard state authority and exiting laws by promoting corruption, affecting the economy and compromising elections (UN, 2012). Using the UK as a case in point, this paper describes drug smuggling, its development, and the effects, the challenges for investigators and judicial processes and strategies to manage with the problem.