Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs

Drugs have a huge impact on international and domestic crime. Regarding the article “Drug trafficking and organized crime: connected but different”, “Drug trafficking has been the origin and is still the main source of income for many of the criminal organizations operating in the region” (Calderon). Selling drugs is way more than just finding a customer and taking payment. It’s controlling territories that have been marked already, and sabotaging others and taking it as your own. This causes…

moral passage (p. 14). Furthermore, the debate over drug addiction is not necessarily carried out between users and nonusers of drugs – rather, Gusfield argues that it is carried out between defenders and opposers of the norm. As was the case with alcohol, drug users are now generally seen as “addicts”, insinuating that drug use and abuse are medical issues rather than criminal behaviors. Thus, this moral passage lifts much of the stigma surrounding drug use off the individual and emphasizes the…

antidote they were subscribed and would realize a need for the drug cocaine. It was not viewed badly nor illegal back then. Cocaine originated in South America, Peru, and Bolivia and is a very popular illegal drug in the U.S. today. It is a very bad drug that changes the chemistry of the brain and sometimes even causes death. Cocaine come from an extracted leaf called Erythroxylon, which is a coca bush. This…

The purpose of this paper is to answer the following questions concerning the case study found in Drugs, Society and Human Behavior by Ray and Ksir (1996). Do we try to reduce the overall amount of drugs in society or to reduce the harm that drug use may inflict? What do you think the goal of drug policy should be? Is drug policy a moral issue: Is it simply wrong to allow the spread of drug use? Therefore, answering the essential questions, but also including other information to support my…

The war on drugs has become the leading costly issue America faces to date. Government corruption, private prisons that promote slave labor, federal regulations that conflict with some states legalization of cannabis, drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin all issues seen in the film. “Freeway’ Ricky Ross helped begin the crack-cocaine hysteria by creating it and making it available in every street corner. The purpose of this essay is to give my overall opinion of what I got out of…

Faustina Remaniak CHE 108 Essay Drug Trafficking “The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.” Power and wealth have been the downfall of men since the beginning of time. Drug trafficking is a global illicit trade that has become the number one cause of deaths in the United States. Pablo Escobar was a notorious drug Lord during the 1970-1990’s who became famous for his illegal activities in Drug Trafficking. Becoming untouchable in his own country and…

“WAREHOUSE EMPIRE” SUMMARY AND REFLECTIONS. This article by Jessica Garrison, is an illustration of the reality we live in and yet, sometimes we don’t notice it. I think they couldn’t have chosen a better name for this article because it describes things the way they are: An empire of warehouses. The article talks about how warehouses are taking over Moreno Valley and Miraloma cities in the inland empire and how that is related in some cases to corruption. One case mentioned, is the one of…

experienced in Colombia that coincide with Colombia’s violence like corruption arise. A problem that coincides with Colombia’s violence is corruption. Since drugs are excluded from the Gross domestic product of a given country, drug trafficking is problematic as third world countries can stabilize their economy based off of illegal and illicit actions. Drug trafficking can ultimately lead to economic and social consequences within a country. In the painting, Masacre de La Mejor Esquina, the…

difference between legal and illegal drug use, legal being prescription drugs and over the counter remedies. Illegal drug use being harder to categorise as its status is always evolving and changing by those in power. Thomas de Quincey was quoted as saying "Nobody will laugh long who…

1. Unemployment, shift-work, poverty, lack of education, selling drugs to supplement low paying jobs, single family households, and social instability are all variables that contribute to the drug epidemic in the United States. The majority of illegal drugs in the U.S. are produced in Mexico and transported to the U.S. Mexico’s extreme poverty and violence create the optimal atmosphere for drug cartels to recruit young influential males mired in poverty. The Mexican government’s campaign…