International Law
The Suppression of Drug Trade continued
University of Louisville , Blanca Abrego
This War on Drugs has created in the US a problem of incarceration ; the 59.6 % of prisoners in the US are related to drug problems .
Suppression seems to be something really hard since it has to be worldwide so that the trading can decrease . Many governments cooperate among themselves such as Mexico , Afghanistan and United Kingdom in which they agree to avoid the process of converting their crops of cocaine , heroin and opium into narcotics . They avoid this process by aerial spraying which damages the crops and some governments have noticed a decrease in the crops preventing tons of narcotics to be produced . For example , Colombia eliminated 1,300 square kilometers of cocaine crops avoiding 500 tons of cocaine to be produce which can supply the US and Europe for a year . They also avoided $ 100,000,000 in illicit income ( Wikipedia ).
As you see this is a really attractive industry and many governments are involved in it . Recently Washington approved the recreational use of Marijuana ; I will not be surprised that the government is getting money from this because it ’ s evident that Marijuana lowers a person ’ s IQ , creates a motivational syndrome among others , creating a stupid society .
International Law it ’ s also in charge of the investigation of suspects . They investigate suspicious bank accounts , suspicious conducts , and gangs among others .
Apart from this , international law prevents the drug sales and use by watching carefully and in an undercover way the supply chain of it and enforcing the law , also they provide abuse treatments such as AA . A very common strategy is education , government and international institutions have public campaigns in which they educated citizens on the danger of drug use .
This has been criticized by many since it has turn out to be inefficient . It has created literal wars , violence , the killing of innocent people and not to say it is very costly , a significant part of the government ’ s money goes to drug investigation and persecution . I will say that there is no uniform international law that can control drug trafficking . Some countries adopt the US drug policy , other criticize it . Countries also vary on their punishments and the quantities you must have to be seen as a crime . But something that it ’ s evident is that the use of drug creates addiction transforming it into a social problem . By social problem I mean that there are less efficient employees , violence happens , families are separated and so on .
Globalization also plays a big role here because now border are more accessible creating better routes for the trading . Since it ’ s a very profitable industry it ’ s easy for traffickers to buy people and make trading even easier or make countries legalize drugs .
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