Three Types Of Drug Trafficking In The United States
English 121
October 2012
Drug Trafficking
All over the world there are different types of trafficking crimes committed every day. Whether it is sex, human, or weapon trafficking, all types are a serious crime and maintain a constant occurrence everyday. Besides those three types of trafficking, there is one in particular that happens all over the world and seems to make more of a statement than anything else, drug trafficking. The reason that it gains more attention than anything else is because it involves more ordinary people, and is extremely easy to come in contact with. Drug trafficking has estimated yearly revenue of over $400 Billion (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime). That is not even comparable when you consider …show more content…
The amount of punishment a person can receive for being a drug trafficker varies depending on the type of drug, how much you have, and how many offenses you’ve had in the past. The most popular drug that is trafficked, for example, is marijuana. Major drug cartels usually carry between 100 and 1000 kilograms worth of marijuana when shipping it across borders. The punishment for your first offense with possession of 100-999 kilograms of weed is “Not less than 5 years or more than 40 years in prison. If death or serious bodily injury, not less than 20 years or more than life in prison. Fine not more than $5 million if an individual, $25 million if other than an individual” (DEA). If you have a second offense with the same amount, you double all of the numbers. Drug trafficking is something the DEA tells people not to play around with, because nothing good ever comes out of it. Other countries, such as the United Kingdom has a minimum penalty of seven years in prison and a maximum life in prison based on the courts discretion of the circumstances of the case. Spain, on the other hand, has only a maximum of nine years on an offence, and minimum of 1 year with small fines. As you can see, different countries handle drug trafficking in very different …show more content…
Millions of different people from different religious, cultural, and ethnic groups work together to buy, sell, and ship drugs from country to country. As drugs go from country to country, they are most likely becoming more profitable because of distance it has traveled and the area it is destined for. While being able to smuggle in drugs to different countries in order to double or even triple the amount of money you can sell them for is financially great, drug traffickers must know what they risk. If caught for any large shipment, that one person or group could owe millions in fines and spend up to life in prison. Even with the prison possibilities, most people who run drug trafficking organizations will probably tell you the $100 billion plus is well worth all of the risks that come
October 2012
Drug Trafficking
All over the world there are different types of trafficking crimes committed every day. Whether it is sex, human, or weapon trafficking, all types are a serious crime and maintain a constant occurrence everyday. Besides those three types of trafficking, there is one in particular that happens all over the world and seems to make more of a statement than anything else, drug trafficking. The reason that it gains more attention than anything else is because it involves more ordinary people, and is extremely easy to come in contact with. Drug trafficking has estimated yearly revenue of over $400 Billion (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime). That is not even comparable when you consider …show more content…
The amount of punishment a person can receive for being a drug trafficker varies depending on the type of drug, how much you have, and how many offenses you’ve had in the past. The most popular drug that is trafficked, for example, is marijuana. Major drug cartels usually carry between 100 and 1000 kilograms worth of marijuana when shipping it across borders. The punishment for your first offense with possession of 100-999 kilograms of weed is “Not less than 5 years or more than 40 years in prison. If death or serious bodily injury, not less than 20 years or more than life in prison. Fine not more than $5 million if an individual, $25 million if other than an individual” (DEA). If you have a second offense with the same amount, you double all of the numbers. Drug trafficking is something the DEA tells people not to play around with, because nothing good ever comes out of it. Other countries, such as the United Kingdom has a minimum penalty of seven years in prison and a maximum life in prison based on the courts discretion of the circumstances of the case. Spain, on the other hand, has only a maximum of nine years on an offence, and minimum of 1 year with small fines. As you can see, different countries handle drug trafficking in very different …show more content…
Millions of different people from different religious, cultural, and ethnic groups work together to buy, sell, and ship drugs from country to country. As drugs go from country to country, they are most likely becoming more profitable because of distance it has traveled and the area it is destined for. While being able to smuggle in drugs to different countries in order to double or even triple the amount of money you can sell them for is financially great, drug traffickers must know what they risk. If caught for any large shipment, that one person or group could owe millions in fines and spend up to life in prison. Even with the prison possibilities, most people who run drug trafficking organizations will probably tell you the $100 billion plus is well worth all of the risks that come