Assignment #6
Discuss the production and trafficking of drugs i.e., heroin, cocaine, and crack, and how the trafficking relates to the criminal enterprise. Discuss the criminal justice systems role in the fight against drugs.
Cocaine, crack, and heroin are three of the most abused illegal drugs in the United States. There are some forms of cocaine that are used for medicinal purposes. Cocaine is shipped from South America by drug cartels, mainly from Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. Drug cartels (coalitions or agreements between parties intended to further a mutual interest). Drug cartels handle the trafficking of the drug to one of its biggest customers, the United States.
Heroin is an opioid drug that is manufactured from morphine. The heroin is extracted from the Asian opium poppy plant. It is believed that 24 percent of people who use heroin become addicted (dependency on a substance) and they cannot stop using it without adverse affects either psychologically or physiologically.
Crack, or rock is more addictive than powder cocaine and heroin. Robin Haslam (2013), Director of Operations and Procedures for Addiction Canada, said that he “has never seen someone who can just smoke crack casually.” Heroin, like cocaine is produced from the resin (a sticky substance oozed by the Asian poppy plant).
Crack is the crystal form of cocaine. It is
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The prosecutorial faction files charges or petitions for injunctions, seek inductions, drop cases and reduce charges. The judicial component sets bail or conditions for release, accepts pleas, dismiss charges, impose sentences, and revoke probation. The last component of the criminal justice system is the corrections or penal system. These three components, on their own, are ineffective. However, when combined they are one of the most effective in the world. ( See Venn
There are three components for the criminal justice system is the police, the courts and then corrections. The police enforce the law by apprehending offenders, investigating crimes and also trying to prevent crimes among other things. The courts conduct fair and impartial trials; they determine criminal cases and decide if an offender is guilty or innocent along with many other things. Corrections carry out sentences that have been decided by the courts, they protect the public, and they rehabilitate; reform and reintegrate convicted offenders back into society (2011 CJi Interactive)..
Heroin is a painkilling drug that is made from the Papaverum Somniferum, also known as the opium poppy plant. All opiates are addictive painkillers. Heroin starts as a milky sap of the opium poppy. The sap is then dried and becomes a gum. After washing the gum, it becomes opium. Morphine and codeine are two painkilling alkaloids that
Our Justice system is made up of these three main components; Law Enforcement, Courts, and Corrections. These components are what helps our Justice system run smoothly and fairly. Our law enforcement officers help keep the peace and citizens safe. The Courts are ran by judges who help to sentence offenders and oversee trials. Finally, Corrections is a component in
Criminal organizations operating from South America smuggle cocaine and heroin into the U.S. via a number of routes.
The drug was first created in 1898 as a medicine to relieve pain to those who were suffering from illnesses. However, it was eventually pulled from the market due to its severe and unwanted side effects. Heroin is made from a milky substance found inside the poppy plant. Pure heroin is as much as eight times stronger than that of morphine (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2017).
The United States criminal justice system has three main components: law enforcement, courts (both civil and criminal) and corrections. The law enforcement component is made up of agencies whose task it is to prevent, detect and investigate crimes. The job of the courts is to hear cases and decide whether the defendant is guilty or innocent and to give out proper punishments. The corrections system (or penal system) refers to agencies such as prisons and probation that enforce the courts punishments.
Heroin overdoses, have become a bigger issue over the last few years. Heroin is made from morphine, which itself is a very powerful and addictive drug. In an article on nlm.nih.gov they found that around .6% of people between the ages of 15-64 use heroin. About 23 percent of people who use the drug become dependent on it. Overdoses frequently involve suppression
Heroin Addiction in Australia. There are many fact of this devastated addiction which lead a person to die or rather hope to. Heroin is an opiate drug which belongs to morphine, and morphine itself obtained from the opium poppy plant and this plant called papaver somniferum which means a hypnotic plant, also this plant grows in many countries such as Afghanistan, India, Australia, and China, additionally in 1803 heroin first discovered, and the reason why it has discovered is to help patients to kill the pain, so its name was a painkiller. (Live Science 2015) In addition, according to National Institute in Drug Abuse (2014) heroin is a highly chronic addictive drug that contains morphine which is from a plant called opium poppy that belongs
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.
“Heroin is an opioid drug that is synthesized from morphine.” Morphine is a type of pain medication which heroin comes from. Heroin comes from opium. Opium goes way back to the industrialization era. Europeans used opium also known currently as heroin to drug the chinese and one of the biggest drug dealers was queen Victoria. They drugged the chinese because they wanted to get what they needed from them, but they did it in a very unfair and dangerous way. They put the life of so many chinese in danger and cause them to create an addiction to
Heroin is named after the German word for hero, heroisch. It was first made by C. R. Alder Wright in 1874 by adding two acetyl groups to the molecule morphine, a natural product of the opium poppy. Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug. It is both the most abused and the most rapidly acting of the opiates, about two to four times more potent than morphine and is faster in its onset of action. It is processed from morphine which is a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plants. It is typically sold as a white or brownish powder or as the black sticky
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
America, Mexico, and drugs have had a lengthy relationship. In addition to acting a main illegal drug producer, Mexico also provides routes for the transit of drugs originating in other Latin American countries (“Mexico 's Drug War Heats Up”). The U.S. National Drug Intelligence Center reports that Mexican drug trafficking organizations are "the single greatest drug trafficking threat to the United States." Ninety percent of the United States’ cocaine enters from Mexico. Mexico is also a main supplier of marijuana and methamphetamines in the U.S. Mexico really started taking over the reins of the multibillion-dollar drug traffic in the 1990s when several powerful Colombian cartels dissipated. How much does “multibillion-dollar” refer to? From drag sale in the United States alone, it is estimated that Mexican cartels make between $19 and $29 billion every year (CNN Library). Recently
Drugs are part of a lot of people's everyday lives. The are very dangerous for the human body. They have many horrible effects upon the human body. Heroin is one of these many dangerous drugs. It's affects are so bad that they could even be fatal. In 2015, more than 47,000 people died from a drug overdose. Almost 12,000 of those deaths were from Heroin. Heroin is a highly addictive drug made from the opium poppy, which is a flower. You can get heroin into your system by smoking, snorting or injecting it into your veins. It does not matter how you get it into your body, heroin goes directly to your brain.
Drug trafficking .The Mexican drug trafficking rings play a major role in the flow of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana transiting between United Sates and Latin America. Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera known as “El Chapo” is well known in Mexico. A majority of people have heard about him or know about him in other countries as well .The reason why he is well known is because he became Mexico’s top drug leader in 2003 and the first drug lord to use aircraft to smuggle to the United States. He was in charge of the world 's largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization referred to as Sinaloa Cartel. “The Sinaloa Cartel smuggles multi-ton cocaine shipments from Colombia through Mexico to the United States and Europe, and has distribution cells