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    Drug Cartel Trafficking The drug cartel has been a problem for the United States, as they import illegal substances into the states. There are many different cartels that run in the nation of Mexico. All of them have a lot of power and money. Some of the income of the cartels is drug trafficking, moving illegal substances, or drugs, to buyers in the United States. With all of the illegal movements and events happening, violence arises quickly. The Mexican Drug Cartels are becoming

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    The purpose of the essay is to explain what is illegal drugs and the affects of drugs and evaluate attempts to control it. Any chemical you take that can affect the way your body works is all can be called drugs. For example, caffeine, aspirin and nicotine are all drugs. It must be able to pass from your body into your brain. Once the drugs are inside your brain, it can change the messages your brain cells are sending to each other, and to the rest of your body. By doing this, they interfering with

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    people going thorough chemotherapy to eat and help relieve people from their chronic pain. Another reason to legalize marijuana is to weed out the international drug trade. The war on illegal cannabis that comes in from Canada and Mexico and possibly other countries as well is costing the U.S. tax payer billions of dollars to prevent from illegal marijuana from entering our country our streets. Not to mention all the violence it brings with it. It is true that some people argue that marijuana can be

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    able to keep a drug trade business going despite the government rejections. The traffickers started off with importing marijuana into the United States, and later turned to cocaine. The amounts of drugs being traded also grew rapidly. “…shipments grew from individuals carrying small amounts of large quantities on boats and low-flying airplanes”(Gilmore). The growth of drug trade in Colombia created two cartels, one that was led by Medellin and one led in Cali. Soon enough, the drug industry became

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    is selling is legal or illegal. Therefore, a business that offers illegal drugs like marijuana, cocaine, and heroin and services not readily available to customers in the United States creates a niche. Drug traffickers (cartels) set prices for such illegal goods without government regulators circumventing the law. Cartels set prices based on supply and demand elasticity for drugs, which helps in creating a loyal customer base. If the demand is high toward a specific drug and supply is low, then

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    simple: the international war on drugs has been all but successful. Regardless how overwhelming the combative forces against illegal drug trade may be, the combination of a non-authoritative state with powerful and wealthy organized crime syndicates result in overall weak state efficacy. This rise in drug trafficking, along with an increase in local drug production and consumption, is a major challenge in the pursuit of peace, stability and security. The current drug situations in Africa reveal the

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    fighting a war against drugs that has seen no end in sight, and the U.S.A isn’t the only country being affected by this War on Drugs. The US government needs to take a step back and re-examine it’s approach to the illegal drug trade. The small victories here and there, (a drug seizure or a captured drug-lord), that government-filtered news programs feed you, simply don’t compare to the social harm and collateral damage that comes from this War on Drugs. America’s policies on drug enforcement, have

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    Nguyen 1 Linh Nguyen LSP 200 Professor Ashley Bohrer Final Paper November 21, 2015 The War on Drugs Ruins the Economy The global War on Drugs has existed for four decades as a movement of prohibition of drugs with military intervention with the aim to decrease the illegal drug trade. Nevertheless, instead of avoiding growing of drug supply and demand, the war brings about many unintentional consequences that include the creation of a profitable illicit market and mass incarceration. This criminal

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    activities, and attacks committed by drug traffickers. Violence has become so widespread and common in Colombia that many people have now become numb to it. The Colombian economy has also benefited from the illicit drug trade; however violent it may be. During the 1970s, Colombia became well known, as one of the world’s most important drug processing, production, and distribution centers for marijuana and cocaine. The shrubs and plants from which both drugs are derived from and processed has been

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    In the article “Drug Prohibition And Individual Virtue " Block argues that according to the economics development, compared to the prohibition of others, drugs is the most welfare for people. At first, the the author claims that free market of Marijuana and other drugs bring many economic benefits.The economic benefits is the result of gain from the trade, as the example of the gain from trade, Marijuana seller are value money and the client are value more on the Marijuana, as the result both side

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