The Concepts Of Meth In Mexico, Mexico And California

“Meth, not even once” is a popular phrase that is associated with this drug. This drug has many known horrible effects associated with it, plus many effects more I am sure are going to be discovered over time. I am intending to cover the history, effects, the different categories of meth abuse, and the withdrawal effects of Methamphetamine in this paper, and what to do if you suspect someone you know is using meth.

The DEA is the primary agency to enforce federal drug laws and follow up on drug investigations in foreign countries. The DEA mission is “to enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States and bring to the criminal and civil justice system of the United States to those organizations and principal members of organizations, involved in the growing, manufacture, or distribution of controlled substances for illicit traffic in the United State” (Drug Enforcement Administration, n.d., ¶ 1). Some of the responsibilities under the DEA include investigating and preparing for prosecutions of offenders who operate in the U.S. and internationally. Drug offenders also include local gangs who carry out drug distribution in our communities. DEA manages a national drug intellect program in collaboration with local, state, federal, and foreign officials to gather and investigate distribution tactics.

Most of the common drugs that the cartels produce is Cocaine, Marijuana, Meth, and other chemical formulated drugs produced with stronger chemicals everyday. “ About 65% of the drugs, known as Crystal, Ice, Glass, Tweak, Zip, or just Meth is now either being made in

criminal groups operating from Mexico smuggle cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, amphetamines, and marijuana into the United States.

23. The illicit manufacture and distribution of methamphetamine in the United States today is due to the involvement of…

Cartels have developed complex trade routes and methods of drug smuggling. They use objects such as cars, drones, and they also hide drugs in balloons, or other small rubber packages. This allows them to swallow the drugs and later retrieving, lubricant is used to swallow these packages and later take laxatives to retrieve them. In some cases, they will also sew these packages under the skins of animals.

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.

With a street value of about $100 per gram, using meth all day, everyday, became extremely expensive for these individuals. Having constant access to the drug was crucial to supporting their habits, so many users began distributing meth to ensure they always had money to “keep the party going,” (Shukla 2016, p. 56). In addition to financially supporting their habit of using meth, selling the drug also enabled them to always have a large quantity in their possession. That way when they wanted to get high, they never had to go purchase any—they just had it. For some distributors, just selling meth wasn’t enough. One interviewee, Mia, explained that she began by selling to those she knew, and they would help her grow her network. “Well, I’m saying like somebody I might deal with…for a while and they’d say, ‘Well, I know somebody,’” (Shukla 2016, p. 58), so they began selling to more and more people. If their network grew fast enough, it became much harder to meet the demand they had; at this point, only

Once these laws took effect, and methamphetamine lab arrests increased, users began to start seeking alternatives to manufacturing the drug at home. Cartels and gangs, primarily from Mexico, started realizing that Florida was a large market to sell mass quantities of “ice” methamphetamine and began to traffic the pure clear crystalized drug to Central Florida. “The purity of crystal methamphetamine typically is over 80 percent, depending upon the amount of washing, the purity of the initial substance, and the experience of the laboratory operator. Crystal methamphetamine typically is administered by smoking using a glass pipe, although some abusers inject the drug.” (National Drug Intelligence Center,

Drug trafficking is something that is hard for law enforcement to keep up with. The federal government has developed agencies in order to combat this problem. “The primary agencies involved in drug interdiction include the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, U.S. Coast Guard, and the U.S. Military” (Levinthal, C.F., 2012, p. 120). The DEA is responsible for enforcing illicit drugs laws and regulations. And bringing to justice any person or group that has any part in engineering, delivery or growing of an illicit drug with the intent to sale. The DEA are sometimes work undercover and are frequently out of the country conducting investigations with foreign leadership. The U.S. Custom and Border Protection

CM utilizes operant conditioning to motivate particular behaviors through positive reward by motivation of a rewards. Types of incentives that are most popular in CM include Voucher Based Reinforcement (VBR) and Prize Incentives, a more cost effective way to gain a prize, lottery style. Both incentives reward positive goal oriented tasks such as drug free urine samples and consistency in attending counseling sessions. (NIDA, 2016). Studies conducted in methadone clinics and counseling treatment programs have reported that incentive-based interventions are highly effective in keeping clients abstinent from drugs and motivating client treatment retention (Petry and Carroll,

National Intelligence Analysis, Criminal Intelligence, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (2007) maintain that from 2004, the amount of MDMA (ecstasy) shipments and the quantity of ecstasy seized started to decrease to the point that shipments were essentially eliminated by 2006. In 2006, Canada took the Netherlands' and Belgium's place as the predominant source of ecstasy supply both domestically and in the United States illicit drug market (NIA et al., 2007). A more recent report by the RCMP indicates that the situation with respect to synthesis, distribution and export of ecstasy is rapidly escalating (NIA et al., 2010). National Intelligence Analysis et al. (2010) argue that land transport is the main method of smuggling MDMA through the Canada-US border as rail and air methods of shipment are not as common. Canada would export MDMA to nations in the Asia-Pacific region, and MDMA seizures in Mexico and Jamaica indicated that criminal organizations in Canada were further expanding their international operations (NIA et al., 2010). Although there is a stable market for MDMA in Canada, it is being over-produced, and that excess of MDMA is being used for a lucrative export (Hudson et al., 2014). This is confirmed by a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report, which contends that the predominant source of ecstasy in North America is criminal organizations in Canada (Hudson et al., 2014). Even though MDMA trafficking is occurring all across Canada, British

While this pathway may hold true for some drugs, the ways in which other illegal substances enter the country can be very different. For example, MDMA tends to be imported by clandestine chemists in the Netherlands. LSD, methamphetamine and magic mushrooms are mostly synthesized or harvested domestically. Also, different substances can have vastly different users. Hari tends to oversimplify the war on drugs as “the war on weed, crack and heroin”.

markets. Before drugs would be smuggled on a major scale, Mexico would supply alcohol to the U.S. when alcohol was prohibited. It was not until the early 1970’s when drug smugglers began to distribute drugs on a larger scope.

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”