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 These lollipops were found to contain heroin when inspected by the US DEA The trade of illegal drugs is a global activity consisting of distribution, shipping, dilution and sale to the respective end-customer of a given (at the country or area observed) illegal psychoactive substance. Image File history File links Stop_hand. ...
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Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is a semi-synthetic opioid. ...
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Retail selling Street selling is the bottom of the chain and can be accomplished through purchasing from prostitutes, through cloaked retail stores or refuse houses for users in the act located in red-light districts which often also deal in paraphernalia, dealers marketing merriment at night clubs and other events...
Introduction
In jurisdictions where legislation restricts or prohibits the sale of certain popular drugs without a certain, practically impossible to get license, it is common for an illegal drugs trade to develop. For example, the United States Congress has identified a number of controlled substances which each have corresponding illegal drug trades. Bold textJAMES CHECKLEY Legislation (or statutory law) is law which has been promulgated (or enacted) by a legislature or other governing body. ...
A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a chemical that alters brain function, resulting in temporary changes in perception, mood, consciousness, or behavior. ...
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Some estimates placed the value of the global trade in illegal drugs at around four hundred billion U.S. dollars in the year 2000, that, added to the global trade value of legal drugs at the same time, totals to an amount higher than the amount of money spent for food in the same period of time. In the 2005 United Nations World Drug Report, the retail market of the global drug market is reported to be valued at 312 billion U.S. dollars.
Major consumer countries include the United States and European nations, although consumption is world-wide. Major producer countries include Afghanistan (Heroin) and Colombia (primarily Cocaine, but to a rising level Heroin, too); see below for further details. Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europes borders. ...
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Trafficking and distribution
 Police evidence photograph showing heroin strapped to the body of a drug smuggler. We can distinguish international trafficking, which involves smuggling across borders, and distribution within the demand country, the latter being usually on a much smaller scale. Image File history File links Balininelawrenceevidence. ...
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A skirmish with smugglers from Finland at the Russian border, 1853, by Vasily Hudiakov. ...
Border stone at Passo San Giacomo between Val Formazza in Italy and Val Bedretto in Switzerland Borders define geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, states or subnational administrative divisions. ...
With regard to crossing borders we can distinguish:
- avoiding border checks, such as by small ships, small aircraft, and through overland smuggling routes
- submitting to border checks with the drugs hidden in a vehicle, between other merchandise, in luggage, in or under cloths, inside the body, etc.
A mule is a lower-echelon criminal recruited by a smuggling organization to cross a border carrying drugs, or sometimes an unknowing person in whose bag or vehicle the drugs are planted, for the purpose of retrieving them elsewhere. A mule is someone who, knowingly or unknowingly smuggles something onto an airplane or across a national border. ...
There are two primary means of distribution: a hierarchy and a hub-and-spoke layout. A hierarchical arrangement includes the manufacturer who uses his own men to smuggle, wholesale and store, and distribute the drugs. A hub-and-spoke layout takes advantage of local gangs and other localized criminal organizations. The cartel is at the center, with satellite organizations that may provide certain services to the manufacturer, and then there is a plurality of distinct groups, each with its own chain. The Spoke-hub distribution paradigm (also known as a hub and spoke model) derives its name from a bicycle wheel, which consists of a number of spokes jutting outward from a central hub. ...
Smuggling is also often accomplished via small boats and yachts, air vehicles, and by gangs paid with some of the merchandise.
Wholesalers routinely accept the materials from the smugglers (often more than one and of varying types), cut it (for obvious reasons of economy, most of all times, adulteration takes place only after the smuggled substance has crossed the last expected border), and sell it to the distribution chain or chains. For the most part, wholesalers are not individual people; it is typically an expansionary endeavor by already-established rogue enterprises, such as Mafias and sometimes local gangs. The chemically more experienced instances may re-manufacture the wares to alter the drug's purity, or altering the chemical composition of the material (such as turning cocaine into crack or freebase). Wholesalers may also manufacture and disseminate general contraband, including non-narcotic controlled substances (like date rape drugs), paraphernalia (where it can't be legally obtained by head shops or the like), or any panoptic, high-demand item that they may receive. This article is about the drug cocaine. ...
Freebase refers to the standalone basic form of an alkaloid, as opposed to its water-soluble salt form. ...
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Distribution and adulteration may traverse a selectively chosen group of cartel employees who purchase from a wholesaler and utilize a prominent population of mules or it may encompass a heavy chain of users who are selling to finance their own use.
See also trafficking and distribution of cocaine, trafficking and distribution of heroin, and trafficking and distribution of cannabis. This article is about the drug cocaine. ...
Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is a semi-synthetic opioid. ...
Species Cannabis indica Cannabis ruderalis Cannabis sativa This is one of several related articles about cannabis. ...
Drug cartels most well known recent drug cartels are the Cali, Medellín and Norte del Valle cartels in Colombia and the Juarez, Tijuana and Tamaulipas cartels in Mexico. Evidently in the past, and arguably still, the United States Government-assigned organization Central Intelligence Agency has itself smuggled the currently most profitable illegal drugs cocaine and heroin via the officially corporate but secretly CIA-controlled airline Air America, and has maintained several secret agreements with various regional Mafia organizations and armies which practically exchanged military or paramilitary (guerilla) aid in warfare in exchange for the respective organizations to leave their profitable activities concerning regional and cross-border illegal drug trade unbothered, so the CIA can be called a drug cartel itself. The Cali Cartel (Spanish: Cartel de Cali) is a drug cartel based in the south part of Colombia, around the city of Cali. ...
The MedellÃn Cartel was a well-organized but very loose network of drug smugglers originating in the city of MedellÃn in Colombia and operating through the 1970s and 1980s. ...
The Norte del Valle cartel, or North Valley Cartel, is a drug cartel which operated principally in the north of the Valle del Cauca region of Colombia. ...
The Juárez Cartel is a powerful Mexican drug trafficking cartel based in Juárez, Mexico. ...
The Tijuana cartel is a Mexican drug cartel from Tijuana. ...
The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ...
Air America pilot cap Air America was a CIA airline proprietary, a commercial organization secretly controlled by the CIA, that supplied covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. ...
The main organized drug cartels deal primarily with the most compact (thus easy to smuggle) and profitable substances cocaine, heroin, MDMA (ecstasy), and methamphetamine, and it is these (except, of course, the government-own CIA and a few authorized drug cartels) that are the primary focus of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. Large-scale manufactured illegal drugs also induce the foundation of satellite organizations that supply some of the most important needed chemical precursors. This article is about the drug cocaine. ...
Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is a semi-synthetic opioid. ...
ecstasy and religious ecstasy MDMA, most commonly known today by the street name ecstasy, is a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family whose primary effect is to stimulate the brain to rapidly secrete large amounts of serotonin, causing a general sense of openness, empathy, energy, euphoria, and well-being. ...
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Mexican cartels Since the late 1980s, illegal drugs trafficking organizations headed and comprised of Mexican nationals became the dominant force of the illicit drug trade in the United States. Mexican trafficking organizations usurped control from Colombian trafficking organizations.
In the early 1980s, cocaine emerged as a drug of choice for many Americans and its use became prevalent through-out the socio-economic spectrum. Initially, Colombians were responsible for growing, processing and distributing cocaine in the U.S., but their strongholds were limited to South Florida and New York along with other metropolitan areas that housed smaller Colombian populations. As demand for larger quantities of cocaine began to take hold in the U.S. in the late 1980s, Colombian traffickers came to rely on Mexican organizations to assist with the transportation and distribution of cocaine through-out the U.S. After a period of time, powerful Mexican cartels realized that they could more effectively handle the smuggling and distribution of ton-quantities of cocaine in the U.S. Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Largest city Albany New York City Area Ranked 27th - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²) - Width 285 miles (455 km) - Length 330 miles (530 km) - % water 13. ...
This article is about the drug cocaine. ...
Colombians had been limited to predominantly a Caribbean smuggling route into South Florida. Mexicans, on the other hand, had access to an expansive 2,000 mile border with the Southwestern U.S. and then a vast network of Mexican immigrants residing in major metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles and Chicago, and later through-out a number of large and small communities in all corners of the U.S. This article is about the largest city in California. ...
Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...
The ample number of Mexican nationals residing in the U.S. without a Valid U.S. Visa occurred as a result of a bombardment of migrant workers in search of higher-paying jobs, but the increased Mexican presence also brought with it a large number of Mexican narcotics traffickers that came to the U.S. with one specific purpose: to sell drugs and earn a significant profit in doing so. Mexican Black tar heroin, which is produced in Mexico and smuggled into the U.S. predominantly by Mexican nationals is the most frequently consumed heroin in the western and Midwestern U.S. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) estimates that 80% of the methamphetamine in the U.S. is either manufactured in Mexico or is manufactured in the U.S. by Mexican national drug traffickers operating under the direction of Mexican drug kingpins. These illicit drug sales in the U.S. have resulted in a boom of revenues for Mexico. In fact, after petroleum revenues, the second biggest revenue source for Mexico comes from illegal alien Mexican nationals sending money into Mexico from the U.S., and a significant part of those monies are illicit drug proceeds.[1] Millions of foreign nationals visit the United States every year. ...
Black tar heroin Black tar heroin is a cheap, impure, and highly addictive recreational drug which has rapidly spread among both casual and habitual drug users. ...
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In the last ten years, United States Department of Justice (DOJ) statistics indicate that the percentage of Latin American non-U.S. citizens that were federally arrested in the U.S. for illegal drug offenses has increased from the low 20 percentile to over 30 percent as of 2003. For example, in 1999, regarding all federal drug arrests, 26.8% were non-U.S. citizens and 45.5% were Hispanic. Other DOJ BJS statistics showed that "in addition to immigration offenses, U.S. attorneys prosecuted an increased number of non-citizens for other crimes, especially for drug trafficking, which increased from 1,799 cases in 1985 to 7,803 in 2000." [2] Justice Department redirects here. ...
Other noteworthy facts, according to National Criminal Justice Reference Service: "Of noncitizens prosecuted in Federal courts during 1994, 55 percent were in the United States legally. During 1984, about 35 percent of noncitizens prosecuted in Federal courts were charged with a drug offense. By 1994, the proportion charged with a drug offense increased to 45 percent." [3]
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Illegal trade of legal drugs Legal drugs like tobacco can be the subject of smuggling and illegal trading if the price difference between the smuggled-from and the smuggled-to country are high enough to make it profitable. A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a chemical that alters brain function, resulting in temporary changes in perception, mood, consciousness, or behavior. ...
Species N. glauca N. longiflora N. rustica N. sylvestris N. tabacum Ref: ITIS 30562 as of August 26, 2005 Tobacco (, L.) refers to a genus of broad-leafed plants of the nightshade family indigenous to North and South America, or to the dried and cured leaves of such plants. ...
A skirmish with smugglers from Finland at the Russian border, 1853, by Vasily Hudiakov. ...
Prescription drugs Some prescription drugs are also available by illegal means, eliminating the need to manufacture and process the drugs. (Prescription opioids for example, are sometimes much stronger than heroin found on the street, example: the group of the fentanyl analogs.) They are sold either via stolen or partly divided prescriptions sold by medical practices and occasionally from Internet sale. However, it is much easier to control traffic in prescription drugs than in illegal drugs because the source is usually an originally legal enterprise and thus can often be readily found and neutralized. A prescription drug (or POM Prescription Only Medicine, in UK) is a licensed medicine that is regulated by legislation to require a prescription before it can be obtained. ...
An opioid is any agent that binds to opioid receptors found principally in the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract. ...
Fentanyl is an opioid analgesic, first synthesized in Belgium in the late 1950s, with an analgesic potency of about 80 times that of morphine. ...
Internet and controlled substances "No Prescription Websites" (NPWs) offer to sell controlled substances without a valid prescription. NPWs were first recognized by the U.S. Justice Department in 1999, indicating that such sites had been operating at least through the late 1990s. NPWs enable dealers and users to complete transactions without direct contact. While many NPWs accept credit cards, others only accept cash thereby further reducing any paper trail. Many NPWs are hosted in countries in which specific categories of controlled substances are locally legal (e.g. prescription opioids in Mexico), but because of the global nature of the internet, NPWs are able to do (mostly illegal) business with customers around the globe. In addition to prescription (weaker) opioids, stimulants, and sedatives, steroids are often widely distributed. To date, no websites have been found offering directly to sell illegal drugs like heroin, illegal amphetamine or methamphetamine derivatives, or cocaine, however the police have uncovered several instances of dealers/drug rings using Craigslist personal ads to solicit drug business using code words and phrases. All other categories of drugs are readily available online. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is a Cabinet department in the United States government designed to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans. ...
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2004 saw the conclusion of Operation Web Tryp, focusing on companies selling so-called research chemicals, legal psychedelic phenethylamines and tryptamines on the Internet. Operation Web Tryp was a United States Drug Enforcement Administration operation that ended on July 21, 2004, with the arrests of 10 persons. ...
This article covers research chemicals in the sense of legal or quasi-legal psychoactive drugs. ...
Violent resolutions Because disputes cannot be resolved through legal means, participants at every level of the illegal drug industry, often at the top levels and, primarily in the USA, but, to a lesser extent also on the second major illegal drug consuming continent, Europe, also at the bottom levels, are inclined to compete with one another through violence. The larger and more often violent drug trafficking organizations are known as drug cartels. For this (and other reasons, namely the inability for governments to control, regulate and tax distribution, and also concerncing the unnecessarily suffering, often addicted, consumers of drugs affected of prohibitionist laws), many have argued that the arbitrariness of drug prohibition laws from the medical point of view, especially the theory of harm reduction, worsens the problems around these substances. Violence refers to acts of aggression and abuse which causes or intends to cause criminal injury or harm to persons, and (to a lesser extent) animals and property. ...
A cartel is a group of legally independent producers whose goal it is to fix prices, limit supplies and limit competition. ...
Harm reduction is a philosophy of public health intended to be a progressive alternative to the prohibition of certain lifestyle choices. ...
Trade of specific drugs The price per gram of heroin is typically 8 to 10 times that of cocaine on US streets.[4] Generally in Europe (except the transit countries Portugal and the Netherlands, a purported gram of street Heroin, which is usually actually between 0.7 and 0.8 grams light to dark brown powder consisting of 5-10%, less commonly up to 20%, heroin base, is between 30 and 70 Euros, which makes for an effective price of pure heroin per gram of between 300 and 2000 Euros. The purity of street cocaine in Europe is usually in the same range as it is for heroin, the price being between 50 and 100 Euros per between 0.7 and 1.0 grams. This totals to a cocaine price range between 500 and 2000 Euros.
Illegal drug policy economics Taking into account that addicts in said countries pay these horrendous sums for drugs that are effectively unpredictable in respect to the content of active compound (which makes for a big share of accidental overdoses), it is very common for addicts to illegal drugs, in contrast to addicts of their legal counterparts (who benefit from legal competition, thus moderate prices, and, as all psychoactive drug or drug containing consuming good must be rigorously quality checked by consumer laws, thanks to the legal nature of concerning businesses), to run out of financial means very quickly, and as a result of their addiction and desperation for their drug, are forced to either start illegaly selling these drugs themselves, to legal or illegal prostitution, or to stealing, burglary, or even violent crimes like armed robbery. Often friends and family are solicited for money by the addicts under various excuses or even stole from to get money that, except from the more lucrative felonies, barely lasts longer than for the next drug dose, as a result of that and the crimes that were dealt with above, there is a continuous, humongous cash-flow from the financially poorer and middle bestowed people, through the hands of various hierarchies of drug traders, eventually abounding for the real beneficiaries of the prohibitionist, inhuman drug policies and the ensuing horrendous drug prices, a few rich people who are in control of the global web of illegal drug trade and, to be regularly found along with them, the politicians that are responsible for these laws that care for these astronomical, additional profits for a tiny elite of rich people while accounting for millions of easily avoidable victims suffering in agonizing pain and misery, not to mention the avoidable deaths accounted to drugs contaminated with unknown substances who are dying solely because the government intentionally thwarts each single try to reduce the caused harm, and for many tens of millions of people damaged by the crimes that are commited as the only possible means of acquisition of this amount of money except for a tiny circle of very rich people (many of aforementioned are not interested in taking these artificially illegalized drugs themselves and therefore don't come understand that they themselves are being stolen from, to say the least by the means of tax dollars being irresponsibly spent completely in vain in the name of a perverted, inhumane cause which is supported by other, unknowing people who are rigorously convinced that, as current law states, any use of a capriciously determined series of drugs selected by utter laymen on the medical properties of those partly deliberately chosen, partly originally demonized motivated of racial prejudices, 3 examples: Marijuana : Mexicans, Cocaine : sex-crazed negroid person, Opium (Heroin): Chinese people who were at that time blamed for stealing jobs from mostly white people; partly on accusations from warmongers: various psychedelics, primarily hallucinogens like LSD, would turn a proud American prospect soldier to a disgusting, woman-like pacifist; and a seemingly endless continuing line of half truths carefully homogenized with a giant piles of outright lies and urban scare tactics seeded by politicians, police officers and worried parents who, rarely informed well enough in the media jungle of deceptions, and if they were, were often readily willing to tell their own children statements, which, even though not exactly truthful themselves, were created to serve for the good cause of keeping one's own breed away from the things which the aforementioned, ideologically racistically discriminating policy-makers were personally believing to be morally reprehensible) who are concealedly defrauded of a substantial part of their hard-earned possesions and who in fact know the bitter and inhuman reality that the War on Drugs has created better than they are willing to admit, benefit by direct or indirect monetary compensation for their efforts to keep the drug laws the effective means they currently are for the purpose of artificially keeping the prices discussed drugs in a range that is bloated to an extremely high degree that would be impossible by any legal means, because a licit market the forces of supply and demand would immediately bring the drug prices down to a more reasonable degree that could, then, be afforded by a person working in a humbly paid occupation. Operation Mallorca, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, 2005 [1] The War on Drugs is an initiative undertaken by the United States to carry out an all-out offensive (as President Nixon described it) against the prohibited use of certain legally controlled drugs. ...
Anabolic steroids - For detailed information on illegal drug trade pertaining to anabolic steroids, see the Anabolic steroids article.
According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, drug smugglers have an easier time smuggling them into the United States. When they have arrived in the United States, they are often sold at gyms and competitions as well as through mail operations. Anabolic steroids are a class of natural and synthetic steroid hormones that promote cell growth and division, resulting in growth of muscle tissue and sometimes bone size and strength. ...
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), a component of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, was established in 1988 by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act. ...
Cannabis - For detailed information on cannabis, including productio, distribution and trade, see the Cannabis article.
Species Cannabis indica Cannabis ruderalis Cannabis sativa This is one of several related articles about cannabis. ...
LSD - For more information on LSD, including information on its trade, trafficking, and distribution, see LSD.
LSD (also known as "acid") is a highly potent hallucinogenic drug which is synthesized artificially from certain metabolism products of the ergot fungus which grows on certain grain strains. The availability of LSD in the United States dropped sharply starting in the 2000, when two distributors alleged by the government to have been manufacturing 95% of all LSD available in the US were captured (see LSD in the United States), but availability has started to rise again (possibly due to law enforcement focusing more heavily on methamphetamine). For other uses, see LSD (disambiguation). ...
For other uses, see LSD (disambiguation). ...
Certain drugs can affect the subjective qualities of perception, thought or emotion, resulting in altered interpretations of sensory input, alternate states of consciousness, or hallucinations. ...
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Psilocybin mushrooms Psychedelic Mushrooms grow naturally in most climates, thus this drug market is financially less lucrative, even though there is no doubt a certain kind of commercial growing of the Psilocybe mushrooms, half-legally in the Netherlands and illegally from different stages of maturity/manufacture of chewable dried mushroom tissue. Psychonauts will often grow these mushrooms or pick them for themselves as they are common to find in many places of the world. A Psychonaut (literally, a sailor of the psyche) is a person who uses trance technologies from any of the worlds religions, modern psychology, and other assorted paradigms, to explore the psyche, their own consciousness, and potentially improve real performance of certain psychological tasks. ...
Alcohol This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please check for inaccuracies and modify as needed, citing sources. The factual accuracy of this section is disputed.
Please see the relevant discussion on the talk page. - Alcohol is a drug with whose existence mankind has lived with for a long time, especially in Europe. Therefore, the human population on the European continent adapted to alcohol consumption by the means of a capable alcohol degradation enzyme called Alcohol-Dehydrogenase, which many asian people lack. In practice that means, for Europeans, Alcohol is less dangerous than for other ethnies who didn't have the chance to develop strategies to eliminate the toxic and psychoactive Ethyl-alcohol, nevertheless and even though currently legal in most of the world's countries, Alcohol is a drug that itself, depending on dose and duration of exposure, causes extensive damage to virtually all body tissues, most notably the liver which degrades most of the consumed alcohol to acetaldehyde, which itself is further oxidized and then used as energy supply, and many human's most precious and important organ, the brain, home to the mind and an individual's personality. It is a fact that is wide-known only in the medical community that Alcohol is, with the exception of tobacco, the single most damage-causing drug that man has ever encountered, this drug causes more damage and disorder than even the most systematically by lies demonized illegal drugs, for example heroin, cocaine, MDMA ( Ecstasy), Amphetamine (Speed), the big family of hallucinogens, and last but not least the harm-arm weed which, along with all other mentioned, all planfully artificially illegalized by policy-makers who made these policies for the benefit of a few people who are already rich and are stacking more and more money at the cost of the extremely disproportionate majority of all mankind. Alcohol, which has been re-legalised more than 70 years ago in the USA following the insights at the evolvement of a huge though illegal system of manufacture, distribution and sale of illegally brewed alcoholic beverages. One could think that the policy-(or better mistake)-makers have learned from the mistakes they did, but at the first look it seems as if they've learned nothing from the misery they've caused for many millions of in vain sacrificed victims against the prohibition of the dangerous, harmful drug alcohol at that time, which in itself caused even much more damage. But they've repeated their mistakes again and again, and it seems that they've wither forgotten or they simply ignore historic facts that are repeating themselves at this very moment for all illegal drugs. It has always been this way, when a substance gets generally prohibited, first the supply is away, but the demand is still as strong as it was on legal yesterday. The people bid each other out for the last few bottles of their drug, so as the supply is running out, from the big desperation of the addicts there is planted a bitter seed that paves the way for horrendous black market prices that are only satisfied because the (now degraded to criminals because they're addicted to, say, pain medication that is very effective yet just has become illegal for the purpose the addict needs it. The government sees that there still are people consuming the drug they have just declared evil, and now those bastard criminals are even evading the tax (the govt effectively forbids taxation) so we have to bing them to (formal) justice. All is ready, the judges have carefully been chosen so as to interpret the constitution / human rights, especially the right of due process and the equality of comparable situations is interpreted to fit the despot....sorry, the president serving the people of his nation (at least the rich and influential, especially old friends are treated prefferedly) There can be only one more conclusion from this, namely that the responsible people know very well of the useless agony and financial damage their mistakes are causing which is eating it's way through society's wallet, feeding a never satiated monster that is an addict himself, namely the few big self-titled VIP's that are capitalism's money-addicted dope slaves. There is nothing to say against people with an addiction as long as noone uninvolved is harmed by someone else, but in this scenario the hungry monster is cannibalizing his own brothers and sisters. For more information on alcohol, see the main article on Alcohol.
In some areas of the world, particularly the in and around the Arabian peninsula, the trade of alcohol is strictly prohibited. For example, Pakistan bans the trade because of its large Muslim population. Similarly, Saudi Arabia forbids the importation of alcohol into its kingdom. Image File history File links Stop_hand. ...
In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which a hydroxyl group (-OH) is bound to a carbon atom of an alkyl or substituted alkyl group. ...
Tobacco This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please check for inaccuracies and modify as needed, citing sources. - This part deals with the trade of tobacco. For more information on tobacco, see Tobacco.
The illegal trade of tobacco is motivated primarily by increasingly heavy taxation. When tobacco products such as name-brand cigarettes are traded illegally, the cost is as little as one third that of retail price due to the lack of taxes being piled on as the product is sold from manufacturer to buyer to retailer. It has been reported that smuggling one truckload of cigarettes within the United States leads to a profit of 2 million U.S. dollars.[5] Species N. glauca N. longiflora N. rustica N. sylvestris N. tabacum Ref: ITIS 30562 as of August 26, 2005 Tobacco (, L.) refers to a genus of broad-leafed plants of the nightshade family indigenous to North and South America, or to the dried and cured leaves of such plants. ...
Meanwhile, the sale of tobacco, legal or not, seems motivated almost entirely by addiction, with social/peer pressure motives being the cause of initial consumption.
The source of the illegally-traded tobacco is often the proceeds from other crimes, such as store and transportation robberies.
Sometimes, the illegal trade of tobacco is motivated by differences in taxes in two jurisdictions, including smuggling across international borders. Smuggling of tobacco from the US into Canada has been problematic, and sometimes political where trans-national native communities are involved in the illegal trade.
Opium - For more on opium, see the main article on Opium.
International illicit trade in opium is relatively rare. Major smuggling organizations prefer to further refine opium into heroin before shipping to the consumer countries, since a given quantity of heroin is worth much more than an equivalent amount of opium, so heroin is more profitable, because heroin is a substance that is made of the main naturally-occuring psychoactive substance in opium, morphine and thus much stronger than opium, and even stronger a relevant proportion compared to morphine. Opium is a narcotic analgesic drug which is obtained from the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L. or the synonym paeoniflorum). ...
Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is a semi-synthetic opioid. ...
Heroin - For information on the trade and production of heroin and more, see Heroin.
Heroin is smuggled into the United States and Europe. Purity levels vary greatly by region with, for the most part, Northeastern cities having the most pure heroin in America (according to a recently released report by the DEA, Elizabeth and Newark, New Jersey, have the purest street grade heroin in the country). Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is a semi-synthetic opioid. ...
Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europes borders. ...
Map of Elizabeth in Union County Elizabeth is a City located in Union County, New Jersey, in the United States. ...
Skyline of downtown Newark as seen from the Newark Bay Bridge. ...
Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Largest city Trenton Newark Area Ranked 47th - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²) - Width 70 miles (110 km) - Length 150 miles (240 km) - % water 14. ...
Methamphetamine - For more on the trade of methamphetamines, see Methamphetamine.
In some areas of the United States, the trade of methamphetamines is rampant. Because of the ease in production and its addiction rate, methamphetamines are a favorite amongst many drug distributors. It has been suggested that Desoxyn be merged into this article or section. ...
Fiction Drug smuggling was the topic of: Midnight Express is a 1978 fictionalized biographical film, based on the story of Billy Hayes, a young American sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey to the US. It stars Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli, Paul L. Smith, Randy Quaid, Norbert...
Traffic is a film directed by Steven Soderbergh that explores the intricacies of the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: user, enforcer, politician and trafficker. ...
Blow is a 2001 drama film about an American cocaine smuggler, directed by Ted Demme (who died of a cocaine related heart attack). ...
Maria Full of Grace film poster Maria Full of Grace (2004) is a joint Colombian-American film, written and directed by Joshua Marston. ...
Layer Cake is a 2004 British gangster thriller, directed by Matthew Vaughn. ...
See also A counterfeit drug or a counterfeit medicine is a medication which is produced and sold with the intent to deceptively represent its origin, authenticity or effectiveness. ...
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References
External links - Asia Death Penalty blog focuses on the death penalty in Asia, including its widespread use for drug offences
- Website engaged in uncovering the covert involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency in trade with illegal drugs, both directly and indirectly
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![250px]Trafficking of illegal drugs carries the death penalty in some countries. This sign posted at the Chiang Kai-shek International Airport warns passengers disembarking in Taiwan of the potential consequences.](/encyclopedia/Image:CKS-Airport-drugs-sign.JPG)
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