Drug Trafficking in the United States Jason Reed ENG122 English Composition Instructor McKenna September 23, 2012 Drug Trafficking in the United States Over forty years ago, the world declared the war on drugs. Today, after decades of failing to control drug consumption, the drug problem has emerged and allowed violent drug traffickers to expand their networks and corrupt even more Mexican and American government officials. The use of violence by traffickers against authorities and witnesses represents a major challenge to the neighboring countries as the ultimate guarantor of law and order within their borders. This in turn, has allowed drug cartels to move illegal narcotics freely throughout Mexico in an attempt to smuggle them
BANG!!!! “Shots fired” or “Officer down” is all so common in our local communities, backyard and nearby school. The war on drug our local officers and drug dealer in our communities. Since early history, drugs have been a major problem in society. As early as the 1960’s and 70’s, our Officers have been dealing with numerous drug lords invading the street of Miami Police officer have been trying to find ways to catch drugs dealers and cleaning out our communities for decades.
Drug Trafficking in the United States Shiann Allshouse ENG122: English Composition II Marsha Beckwith-Howard November 4, 2012 Drug Trafficking in the United States Drug law enforcement agencies face daily challenges in protecting the country's borders from drug traffickers trying to smuggle illegal drugs into the United States. This has been an ongoing problem for many years. Despite the efforts of the law enforcement, the amount of illegal drugs coming into the United States continues to grow. The two most common illegal drugs that drug traffickers try to get pass the border are methamphetamine and crack cocaine. The various ways of transporting the illegal drugs into the United States include concealing
Final Draft Jennifer Anderson ENG122: English Composition II 22 August 2012 Final Draft Drugs. There are many different types of drugs that are used and abused daily by millions of individuals. They can vary from marijuana, methamphetamines, to ecstasy or cocaine. With these different types of drugs being available they need to have a way to get to the user. The path from drug maker to drug user is called drug trafficking.
Should Marijuana be legalized in the United States? Cheryl D. Usry POL 1016: Current Event Dr. Harold V. Jones II March 22, 2012 One of the biggest issues argued about all over congress, the media, and in public resides in our country’s War on Drugs. One of the primary focuses of the War on Drugs targets the controversial drug marijuana. Marijuana remains one the most widely used illegal drugs. This completely natural plant which previously helped so many people has puzzled the leaders of our nation for a long time even before the whole concept of “Reaganomics,” which focused on drugs and its entirety.
March 5th, 2012 Drug Trafficking in the United States The United States of America has been at war against drug trafficking since the early 1920’s. The drug cartel has tried different methods of moving drugs and money between Mexico and the United States. Americans have two major problems in the United States. The first being controlling how, when and where drugs enter our border and the second being assisting the Mexican government in keeping an eye on the drug cartel. Drug use by high school students has declined in the last few years due to: Increased security checks on our border, education materials taught in the classroom, drug tests and increased monitoring of known drug traffickers.
Drug trafficking 1 Drug trafficking in the United States Gailen Fox Writing College Research paper ENG 122 Tiffany Young October, 09, 2012 Drug Trafficking 2 In this paper, I will be discussing The drug problem in the United States. What it doing to American people. Plus what the Government doing To stop drug trafficking in the United States. Drug trafficking 3 Drug trafficking in the United States. Drugs’ trafficking in the United States Has become a big problem.
Gun control is the efforts to regulate or control the sales of guns which basically means that the limiting the sale of guns. The government should have this law because loose gun laws can lead to higher rate of violent crimes, lack of restricting gun ownership have opportunities to get into the wrong hands and preventing ownership of semi- automatic assault weapons would reduce severe harm on the public. Loose gun laws can lead to higher rate of violent crimes. It is believed that most grueling crimes are committed with guns. In the states with stricter laws on gun control there is a lot less violence but in the states that have lose gun laws there is a higher rate of violent crimes.
In total, taxpayers spend up $7.5 billion, or $23,500 per person, annually on feeding, clothing, and providing shelter for marijuana offenders (Donziger). Building new prisons, because there is such a vast number of marijuana prisoners, costs even more money. Since taxpayers have paid nearly $300 billion to fund the War in Iraq, it is time a burden is taken off the taxpayer’s shoulders (Office). Incarcerating drug offenders cost taxpayer 1.8 billion annually, according to most analyst (Stuart). Other substantial costs include enforcing marijuana laws.
Approximate estimate of the revenue makes up from ten to twenty billion dollars per year. Advocates of both sides put convincing arguments behind their point of view and argue the opponents no less convincingly. If price on drugs decreases in the case of legalization drug business would lose its economical base. Then legalization, according to the assumptions of its supports, would lower crime rate because drug addicts would be law-abiding. Alcohol and nicotine are narcotics as well and they are legitimated.