Anti Drug War In this chapter it asks do I feel that the anti- drug laws are adequate. My reply to that is no it is not. The legislation needs to implement harsher laws that will prevent the drug problems that the United States is currently having. At this point in time it’s the Mexican Drug Cartel’s that are the main problem. The Mexican Drug Cartel’s have been around for many of years as early as the 1980’s till present day. (Article: Mexican Drug War Wikipedia.com). My opinion
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extraordinary rise in crime‚ violence‚ drug trafficking and migration over the past five years and these issues are affecting Mexico’s daily reality (BBC News‚ 2012). Mexico was founded on the same values and principles as many countries‚ including the United States. Now we are trying to diversify our economy‚ but we must admit that we have a strong dependence on the United States. However‚ our relations have always been complex‚ because our border issues‚ drug trade and violence related to it. That
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Time for national debate on drug trade By Bethany Rayner Eddie Maguire’s Opinion piece “Time for national debate on evil drug trade” in the Herald sun on April 1st 2012 is a logical piece which appeals to Australians as a whole and those who are particularly associated with drugs. This article was published after the devastating news on Ben Cousin’s relapse became a public affair and the idealistic view on the AFL became tainted. Throughout the piece Eddie voices his opinion by the use of inclusive
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Making things worse‚ in the 1970s drug trafficking became a huge problem for Colombia. Drug cartels pretty much controlled the country starting in the mid-1970s. By the 1990s right-wing paramilitaries had formed. They were made mainly of drug traffickers and landowners. The main paramilitary group called themselves the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). Since the 1970s‚ Colombia has been home to some of the most violent and sophisticated drug trafficking organizations in the
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got out of the red truck with guns and started shooting at the white truck. The men inside the truck were trying to get cover‚ but they were not so innocent because they had guns and were trying to kill their cartel rivals as well. They kept firing back and forth and soon three of the same cartel survived and left the scene before any police showed up. Many people might have thought I got this scene from a movie‚ but Joaquin is my uncle and he witnessed all that violence while he was trying to get his
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with the cartel. They’re supposed to teach people a lesson‚ so that they do not follow in these footsteps‚ but it can backfire and show people techniques. “La Reina del Sur‚” or “The Queen of the South‚” is supposed to be the girlfriend of a drug trafficker form the Sinaloa cartel. She then becomes a powerful trafficker herself‚ and it goes from there. Later‚ they showed another “novela” called “Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal‚” or “Pablo Escobar‚ The Boss of Evil.” He becomes a big drug trafficker
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distributors. In the same decade‚ the Uniform State Narcotic act was passed in 1925 which enabled the police to seize any drugs‚ including marijuana used in illegal trade. Twenty years later‚ the Narcotics Control Act of 1956 made possession of marijuana illegal with a minimum sentence of two years in prison. The government also established the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs to enforce the Narcotics Control Act and oversee any cases in which marijuana‚ narcotics and etc. are involved. Recently
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Immigration‚ without a doubt‚ is one of the more controversial topics in the United States today. Many of the individuals who cross our borders and come into the country are from Latin America‚ specifically Mexico. The problem here is that these individuals are more than likely crossing illegally. Many U.S. citizens argue that illegal aliens‚ or undocumented immigrants‚ are a nuisance with the belief that they are taking our jobs or that they are a burden on the health care system. Immigration became
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Marijuana: Should be Approved? American people have debated over the legalization of marijuana for many years. This discussion is an example of how the united states have struggled to reach an agreement about the use of marijuana. In recent year’s drug policy have been increasingly challenged‚ especially in America. In the United States a group of nearly twenty states has allowed the medical use of marijuana‚ even though neither the federal government nor the United Nations Convention recognize that
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terrorism wherein it expressed concerns “at the growing and dangerous links between terrorist groups and drug traffickers and their paramilitary gangs‚ which have resorted to all types of violence‚ thus endangering the constitutional order of states and violating basic human rights.” Since then‚ heated discussions have been surrounding the issue of financing international terrorism through use of illicit drug‚ money laundering‚ illegal arms trafficking‚ and illegal movement of nuclear‚ chemical‚ biological
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