Drugs are, have been, and will continue to be the root of much violence and illegal activities throughout the world. However, how much of this stems from South America? Well, as it turns out, South America is home to a large number of drug lords as proven via the history of drugs in South America, arrests/deaths of traffickers, and major consumers (USA). While they are commonly well hidden among the society of these countries, when one looks close enough they can see that South America is and has been a source of drugs for many years. First of all, South America is home to drug lords as proven via the history of drugs in South America.
Gang violence is a problem in every major United States city including Chicago, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. Las Vegas Metro Police Department (LVMPD) has implicated many programs to fight the increasing gang issue across the valley, from bringing back the gang unit to having more police officers patrol the known gang spots. These programs were implicated to stop the criminal gangs that are looking to build their territory in Nevada. The three criminal gangs that are mainly affiliated with Nevada are the Gersons’, the Crips, and the Playboys.
Drug trafficking is the mass-production of drugs in one country distributed to another for expected profit. The notorious bosses of the drug trafficking at the time were the infamous Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder, and Griselda Blanco. The two main smuggled drugs were cocaine and marijuana. They were smuggled by plane, boat, and human mules. To hide the abundant profits they’d money launder, hide money in safe, and even went to the extent of having their money built into house walls just to avoid the law.
Decreases in the number of abusers taking ecstasy and cannabis were observed in 2006 and 2007. On the contrary, the significant increase in numbers taking ice and cocaine since 2004 calls for attention (Narcotics Division of the Security Bureau,
What is the biggest cause of crime in Central America? Cocaine, is by the far that biggest factor in crime all along Central America, the external trade of cocaine along with outside governments trying to stop it, have led to organized crime and drug mafias forming within the countries of Central America. People just don’t trust the government in these areas, the criminal justice system is weak, and with so many crimes going unpunished or unnoticed that the people who are innocent in these countries, can only turn towards the gangs and mafias for protection, which in many cases leads the kids of these families into the gangs and
Linda Altman: An Expert on the Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties was an era strongly influenced by drugs, alcohol, organized crime, bootleggers, rum runners, social change, and the rise of American gangsters. Linda Altman, an author who specializes in writing about history, social issues, and multicultural subjects for young adults, writes about the roaring twenties and the factors which largely influenced the era in her book The Decade That Roared: America During Prohibition. Altman strongly acknowledges the Roaring Twenties with her book through using many outcomes which arose from the era. Three of the main outcomes which arose from the Roaring Twenties, that Altman uses to expound upon the roaring twenties, are organized crime, social changes, and alcohol.
The main characters of Scarface (1983) and Clean and Sober (1988) both can be considered as tragic heroes with a cocaine addiction. The main characters in their respective films are viewed “as tragic due to their struggle against the compulsion to use alcohol or drugs” . Scarface (1983), is distinct from the original Scarface released in 1932 because it focuses on the main character, Tony Montana’s (Al Pacino) addiction to cocaine. In the context of the film, “cocaine is capital and capital is cocaine” .
Cocaine is a powerfully addictive stimulant drug. Any substance that affects the brain has an effect on mental health. In this cocaine is no different from many other recreational drugs. According
(Maia Szalavitz). A decade later, and Portugal’s results have been outstanding. ‘The Cato paper reports that between 2001 and 2006 in Portugal, rates of lifetime use of any illegal drug among seventh through ninth graders fell from 14.1% to 10.6%; drug use in older teens also declined. New HIV infections in drug users fell by 17% between 1999 and 2003, and deaths related to heroin and similar drugs were cut by more than half.’ (Maia
I continue to see people abuse drugs in my community, it’s time to start bringing light to this problem and hopefully an end. Drug abuse has been going on for hundreds of years, only recently scientists and medical professionals have come to understand that addiction is actually a disease. Despite what researchers have said, many people still consider addiction a choice and those who suffer from it have bad
Medical cannabis is an expanding illusion of appropriation to a drug that has been a leading problem in youth crime. The legalization of medical cannabis leads to an increase in “under the table” crime associations with the rug. Medical cannabis legalization also leads to legalization of recreational cannabis and the increased distribution of illegal substances to juveniles. Medical cannabis also is linked to a high increase in taxes. The difficulty of containing these problems when medical cannabis is legalized rises higher than ever before.
The black market which was led by several mafia organizations, was the cause of this, which basically led to worse social conditions. New York and Chicago were the main states that rose to power through the successful selling of illegal liquor that the mafia organizations offered, but New York was the main home of a dozen big time mobsters. New York became one of the nation’s largest market for bootlegging alcohol. The mafia organizations found ways to avoid being detected by law enforcement during the prohibition. Some of these crimes included money laundering, bribing law enforcement, smuggling, and bootlegging.
Along the US-Mexico border, there are several criminal elements operating in the region. These elements consist of drug cartels, gangs, and terrorists that are not only local but from around the globe. Each of one of these groups brings with it, its own unique flavor of crime. These illegal activities, ranging from drugs to human trafficking to terrorism, must be stamped out to provide a safer and more secure environment to society as a whole.
129). Opium grown in the fields of Afghanistan today ends up as heroin on the streets of cities right across the globe, from Paris to Berlin, to London and New York, to Cape Town and Lagos. The trading routes along which it travels so speedily and efficiently are under pinned and facilitated by these infrastructural improvements (Friman, 2004). In the European region, the relaxation of border controls and attempts to create a pan-Europe free market have further facilitated trade. The impact on drug consumption patterns has been little short of transformative.
Besides, addiction is a treatable disease and he also states his idea about how to solve it. Therefore both of the authors express the worry to drug problem in