Drug Trafficking

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Unbelievably, illegal drug trafficking affects about every country in the world. The major countries in Latin America where the illegal drugs are grown are Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico (“Drug Trafficking in the United States”). From these countries, they are shipped mainly to the United States and Canada, but are also shipped to European countries such as the Netherlands, England, Spain, and Germany. A variety of drugs are sent across the borders of Latin America countries which include: Cocaine, Marijuana, Heroin, Methamphetamine, MDMA which is also called Ecstasy, LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide), PCP (Phencyclidine), Flunitrazepam, GHB(Gamma hydroxybutyrate), and Steroids (“Drug Trafficking in the United States”). The first known drug traffic is not known to man, but major trafficking began in the late nineteen seventies from Colombia to the United States. Drug trafficking not only effects the Latin America who supply the drugs, drug trafficking also effects the receiving such as Canada and the United States. In the receiving countries, almost every citizen is affected both directly and indirectly. Along with citizens, the economy and market is influenced from this activity. Not to be confused that Latin America is only one region where illegal drugs are shipped from, illegal drugs are also shipped from the Middle East, Southeast and Southwest Asia (“Drug Trafficking in the United States”). Illegal drug trafficking is a serious problem in the United States of America and other countries in the world, but countries in Latin America look at drug trafficking as a profitable business.
The “War on Drugs” in the United States has been going on for about twenty-five years, but drug trafficking around the world has been going on for centuries (Lobe 1). Bureaus and Departments such as the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs began to arise in the United States in the late nineteen sixties due to the rise ...