Drug Trafficking In Afghanistan

Laws and Social Effects of Drug Trafficking. Since the 19th century, drug trafficking as been a problem in the United States. The drugs being smuggled into the United States started with marijuana to opium to cocaine. These substances have been smuggled and sold into the United States illegally.

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The Taliban have established a name for themselves, not a positive one, but a very well-known name. ES1: Who the Taliban are and their reasons for coming into power help for an understanding of the effect they have on the people they control. “The Taliban is a predominantly Pashtun, Islamic fundamentalist group that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, when a US-led toppled the regime for providing refuge to alQaeda and Osama Bin Laden.” (Laub, 2014 p.1).

The Rogue Warrior has written a new set of rules to guide him in the dark world of special ops. When the times get dangerous, there are only one kind of people to call upon – dangerous men. The most dangerous man in the world is Captain Richard Marcinko aka the Rogue Warrior. The tiny nation of Azerbaijan that is under the Russian sphere of influence has recently been the target of destabilization and Marcinko needs to find out who is responsible. The small nation has an abundance of oil riches that it intends to pipe to the West through a pipeline and both Iran and Russia seem to be interested in controlling the nation.

Specifically, the question wondering if all the money and time spent on security and prevention has been worth it. The article was written by John Haltiwanger on September 11th, 2017. Haltiwanger is journalist and breaking news writer for Newsweek. He specifically covers defense and foreign affairs. Manning, L. (2011, August 31) Excerpt: Against all odds, a story of survival on 9/11.

Bush announces war on Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Osama bin Laden. The Taliban refused to relinquish bin Laden due to the pashtunwali code of ethics. “The coalition forces have driven the Taliban out of every major city, pushed them across the border to Pakistan and to the mountains in the south and east of Afghanistan. ISAF, an international peacekeeping force, has been sent to Kabul. The country has an interim president now, Hamid Karzai.”

The government was much more focused on Russia and dealing with the communists. By not keeping an eye on the epidemic they were unprepared for the spark in the drug and failed to acknowledge the epidemic until late into the cocaine epidemic. Cocaine was also one of the most accessible illegal narcotics in the country. Cocaine was being brought into the United States at such a rapid rate

With the failure of the rehabilitation programs, the United States had to turn to the retribution model of punishment. Also at the turn of the decade into the 80’s, The War on Drugs kick started the epidemic of prison overcrowding, and launched America into a downward plunge of economic and political turmoil. The mandatory minimum sentencing policy that was in place did not help the situation either, giving long incarceration sentences to prisoners who didn’t deserve it. Criminals were given the minimum sentences for crimes, and judges carried them out precisely. Race and poverty were also side contributors that contributed to the bigger picture of the issue.

There is different aspects of linkage between narcotis and terrorism. Afghanistan are the biggest producers of opium in the world, which generates huge sums of money to terrorists from international market. Narcotic drugs are the most lucrative commodity that generate quick money without paper work. The business transaction is done in hard cash and no document is left as evidence for legal action. Terrorism needs huge sums of money to

However drug usage constitutes an action which results in not only in the mental and physical harm upon the drug user but also the direct and indirect harm upon the surroundings of the drug user which further proves why soft paternalism would support the criminalisation of drug usage. Drug usage often directly and indirectly harms the following aspects of the drug user’s life; their marriage or personal relationships with other people, the stability of their family life, their financial issues which others may depend on as well as the law and order of a country (Medic8.com 2014). For example in the United States, approximately $50 billion is spent annually by the government in an attempt to curtail the use and collateral damage caused by illegal drugs (Ahmad 2004). This serves as evidence of indirect financial harm incurred upon non-drug user citizens who pay taxes to finance governmental expenditure so that the needs of all citizens are adequately provided for. However instead of the government spending additional money on education or infrastructure it is covering rehabilitation health and crime related costs which are caused by 9.4% of the American population whom are illegally abusing illicit drugs (Ahmad 2004).

To begin, both Sternberg and Walters show great concern about the serious drug problem in America. Sternberg states that American is losing the war on drugs people need a solution to solve the drug problem. He mentions that death toll from heroin increased a lot since 2010, we have to do something for this. Like Sternberg, Walters also realized that drug has become a very serious problem in America. He asserts that drug flooding into America from Mexico cause the high heroin death rate.

Barack Obama is inaugurated in as the 44th President of the United States- January 20th, 2009 President Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States, he was also the first African American President. He will later be in office until January 20th, 2017 after he got reelected November 6th, 2012. President Obama announces that Osama Bin Laden was killed- May 1st, 2011 Osama Bin Laden 's death was very important because he is the founder of Al-Qaeda. It is also thought that he is the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks. He is also an influence on the Muslim world for terrorists.

Afghanistan is a multi-ethnic country, mainly believe in Muslims in Islam, divided into Sunni and Shiite. Pashtun is the first great nation in Afghanistan, mainly believe in Sunni. As the largest faction in Islam，Pashtuns hold a major position in Afghan society、politics、economy、culture, claiming to be the "Orthodox", against Shiite the Hazara believe in. Hazara is the third most populous nation in Afghanistan. However, they are discriminated by Pashtuns and other ethnic groups; moreover, their social status never been taken seriously by the central government.

The use of proxy wars were to ensure that a third world countries government would be a government approved by a major superpower such as the U.S or U.S.S.R.. In the secret war in laos the U.S supported the royal lao government against the Pathet Hao (doc 1b). This is significant because the people of laos did not have a say in what they wanted to do. This affected Laos because they should be able to choose what they want to believe and they should not have ideas crammed down their throats. On december 27th, 1979 afghan leader Amin was shot and killed by the soviet union, he was replaced by a soviet accepted leader Babrak kamal (doc. 9).

Prescription Narcotic Abuse Abuse of prescription narcotics causes loss of family relations, income, and self-esteem for the addict and causes an economic burden on American society. The abuse of prescription narcotics is fast becoming an epidemic in the United States.