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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