Domestic and international illegal drug trafficking is undoubtedly a multibillion dollar business. Drug trafficking has vast profit-to-cost ratios, a market lacking legal constraints governed only by the law of supply and demand. Secure supplies of raw materials, highly developed manufacturing facilities, working capital, dependable shipping contractors and wholesale delivery are all elements that are shared between drug trafficking and the business of selling legal products. On the industrialized and importation levels, the drug business is focused among a fairly minor group of people who head major trafficking organizations. On the retail level, it is filled with a large, changing, and unrestricted number of dealers and
