With the increase of globalization activities and our worlds being more readily accessible at anytime from anywhere in the world, it is no surprise that illegal activities are piggy-backing the legal globalization activities and enjoying the ride.
Drug traffickers have found ingenious ways to push their illegal drugs around the globe better than any nation trying to administer legal drugs. The war on drugs has only seemed to overload our prisons with small time dealers and users rather than the hardened criminals creating and moving the products in a global manner.
With the trade being mostly a ghost operation, it has become a favored method of money laundering as well. According to Agnes France-Presse, a writer for commondreams.org, “nearly 400 billion dollars from drug money was pumped into the global economy in 1999 alone”. (France-Presse, 2000)
With the economic boost this provides to countries, one can easily see …show more content…
Persia and India began eating and drinking mixtures of the drug in the 1600’s. From the 1600’s until about the 1800’s the drug was, once again, popularly traded and moved from country to country. In 1796, China’s emperor was so worried about the amount of use that he banned opium. Still, in other areas of the world, medical patents were issued for the drug and easy trade continued.
In 1803, Morphine is created by Friedrich Sertuerner in Germany. In the 1800’s, the War on Drugs was very real. The British and China actually went to war over the trade. In 1853 the hypodermic needle was invented. Bayer company announces a new drug, Heroin, in 1898 as a substitute for Morphine. It was supposed to be a drug that didn’t have the nasty side-effects of Morphine. In the early 1900’s, Heroin addiction sky-rockets. In 1924 the Heroin Act makes possession and manufacturing of heroin illegal. The illegal drug trade, once again, thrives on the secrecy throughout the
Drug traffickers have found ingenious ways to push their illegal drugs around the globe better than any nation trying to administer legal drugs. The war on drugs has only seemed to overload our prisons with small time dealers and users rather than the hardened criminals creating and moving the products in a global manner.
With the trade being mostly a ghost operation, it has become a favored method of money laundering as well. According to Agnes France-Presse, a writer for commondreams.org, “nearly 400 billion dollars from drug money was pumped into the global economy in 1999 alone”. (France-Presse, 2000)
With the economic boost this provides to countries, one can easily see …show more content…
Persia and India began eating and drinking mixtures of the drug in the 1600’s. From the 1600’s until about the 1800’s the drug was, once again, popularly traded and moved from country to country. In 1796, China’s emperor was so worried about the amount of use that he banned opium. Still, in other areas of the world, medical patents were issued for the drug and easy trade continued.
In 1803, Morphine is created by Friedrich Sertuerner in Germany. In the 1800’s, the War on Drugs was very real. The British and China actually went to war over the trade. In 1853 the hypodermic needle was invented. Bayer company announces a new drug, Heroin, in 1898 as a substitute for Morphine. It was supposed to be a drug that didn’t have the nasty side-effects of Morphine. In the early 1900’s, Heroin addiction sky-rockets. In 1924 the Heroin Act makes possession and manufacturing of heroin illegal. The illegal drug trade, once again, thrives on the secrecy throughout the