How Drug Trafficking Effects the Us Economy

How Drug Trafficking Effects The Us Economy

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There are many people who feel that the war on drugs costs the US too much in terms of tax dollar, law enforcement effort and people’s lives. In addition, with all the effort that has gone into trying to stop drug trafficking, there is hardly any results to show for it.More...

Solution To Drug Trafficking

      Everyday when we open the newspaper, we can read stories about all the crimes committed either by drug dealers or drug addicts. There is no doubt that the long war the US has been waging against drug trafficking has primarily been a failure.More...

Drug Trafficking And Prostitution In Columbia

      Although many people do not know this but Columbia has been dealing with terrorism long before al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden came into the scene. While the terror meted out by Islamic terrorists is based on religion and globalization, drug trafficking has been instrumental in fueling terrorism in Columbia.More...

Drug Trafficking Is Wasting Our Tax Dollars

      It is strange that a person convicted of murder in the United States can expect punishment of less than 6 years in prison but a person having 5 grams of cocaine will be expected to pay a fine up to $2 million and a stay of 40 years in prison without parole.More...

Major Drug Trafficking Arrest

      The US is trying very hard to fight drug trafficking and one major drug trafficking arrest was made in August 2006. The Coast Guard apprehended a Mexican drug lord, Francisco Javier Arellano Felix. This was quite a feather for the US Coast Guard as they were able to arrest the mastermind behind the cartel that was responsible for digging tunnels under the US border and were using them to transport drugs into the nation.More...

Drug trafficking is considered to the most widespread and lucrative crime operation in the US. The statistics of drug trafficking in the United States is quite amazing. Drug trafficking accounts for nearly 40 percent of the country’s crime activities and generates over $110 billion annually for the drug lords.More...

It is presumed that there is a connection between illegal drug trafficking and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). It is believed that the CIA has been involved in international trafficking of drugs like cocaine and heroine, and the agency is using the profits from this to finance covert operations across the world.More...