Technology has enhanced and increased trafficking and the trade of drugs through illegal transactions. ... All transactions are cash based, and thus the funds must somehow be integrated into the formal economy, or through money laundering in order to conceal all transactions. ... The black market enforced LDC into bribery and illicit capital flow such as money laundering, which has created poverty to tremendously increase. The domestic, national, and international economics of the country becomes weakened as unemployment increases. ... An increase in unemployment and poverty is one of many f...

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However, in recent years its role has increased into a major hub for the trafficking, manufacture, and use of drugs. In this paper I will discuss the history of West Africa and it's role in this drug trade, and show how it has exponentially increased within the past decade. ... In the case of cocaine, this is the primary cause for the increasing involvement of West Africa in the international cocaine trade. ... According to the British Crime Survey of 2007, the prevalence of cocaine use among adults has increased by over 400% in the last decade, from 0.6 percent in 1996 to 2.6 percent i...

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A deal can start in violence if the buyer simply does not have enough money, this will provoke the drug dealer into action he deems necessary because it is his job to deliver this money. ... The money started flowing and the demand for cocaine only kept growing steadily. ... The business addition increased sales exponentially, and soon Ross was selling and making freebase in industrial batches and had multiple production houses. ... By coming up with the wicked idea of smoking cocaine (also referred to as crack cocaine) he increased the sells and profits that matched no other dealer in quite s...

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Under the Bush Administration, exorbitant amounts of money with medial reform were spent. ... Those in the medical and therapeutic fields would have the opportunity to become more educated on drug use and its effects, make more of a monetary profit with the increased flow of patients, and possibly develop treatments or vaccines for other diseases. ... Some of that money is deducted for this, that, and the other, however a percent of that is spent on drug research, drug education, and various others. ... Our culture's attitude toward materialism, money, and power as a representation for...

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Opponents state that with legalization would come an increase not only in availability, but also with everything associated with that availability. This includes suffering of users and their loved ones, death of users and innocent alike, increases in health-care costs, cost to employers, drug-related crimes, and increases in various other social, economic, and emotional costs. ... (Duke 119-120) Controversially, legalization adversaries such as Robert DuPont argue that the inevitable result of legalization would be increased drug use, along with increased addiction and death rate. ... Followin...

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Opponents state that with legalization would come an increase not only in availability, but also with everything associated with that availability. This includes suffering of users and their loved ones, death of users and innocent alike, increases in health-care costs, cost to employers, drug-related crimes, and increases in various other social, economic, and emotional costs. ... (Duke 119-120) Controversially, legalization adversaries such as Robert DuPont argue that the inevitable result of legalization would be increased drug use, along with increased addiction and death rate. ... Followin...

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The Office of national Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) summarizes the drug to crime relationship in three ways: [d]rug defined offenses, [which are] violations of laws prohibiting or regulating the possession, use, distribution or manufacture of illegal drugs, [d]rug related offenses, to which a drug's pharmacologic effects contribute; offenses motivated by the user's need for money to support continued use; and offenses connected to drug distribution itself [and the] [d]rug using lifestyle, a lifestyle in which the likelihood and frequency of involvement in illegal activity are increas...

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Although an illegal substance marijuana is used for making money in America and other parts has been successful and existent for years. ... The fact that there are so many smokers along with the fact that the money is fast and easy are the main reasons that the selling of weed has become as popular as it is. ... The grower makes the most money because he deals with the largest amount of the drug. ... The majorities of street hustlers do not want to move up the ladder they want to make enough money to live, eat and have fun on. The money that is made by selling drugs is plentiful and it doe...

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This is what introduces Tony to the world of money, drugs and power. ... His cocaine abuse increases and he is additionally charged with tax evasion and money laundering. ... When she marries Tony, her greediness for cocaine becomes much worse, as does Tony's greed for money and power. ... Frank's greed for power and money might be related to Tony's greed for power later in the movie. ... The movie would not be the same without greed and the characters needs for materialistic values, such as money and cocaine. ...

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Opium dens increased. ... In the 1950s, use of marijuana increased again, along with that of amphetamines and tranquilizers. The social disturbance of the 1960s brought with it a dramatic increase in drug use and some increased social acceptance; by the early 1970s some states and districts had decriminalized or legalized marijuana and lowered drinking ages. ... The Anti-Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988 increased funding for treatment and rehabilitation; the 1988 act created the Office of National Drug Control Policy. ... It became so only after mankind learned to increase the efficiency and...

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Despite these increased arrests and seizures, marijuana and cocaine still poured into south Florida. ... Because the Cartel leaders had money, they also began to acquire power. ... During the 1980s, it appeared that Central America was awash in drugs, and drug money. ...

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Despite these increased arrests and seizures, marijuana and cocaine still poured into south Florida. ... Because the Cartel leaders had money, they also began to acquire power. ... During the 1980s, it appeared that Central America was awash in drugs, and drug money. ...

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If the supply of a good or service is increased then the demand goes down, resulting in a lower cost for the consumer. ... Department of Justice ("Speaking out against," 2010) "Lowering or eliminating the legal restrictions for drugs will result in increased availability, and greater use, with higher healthcare costs and increased criminal activity.... This will result in an academic decline as well as an increase in disciplinary problems within schools. ... This will actually increase the burden on law enforcement rather than lessening it. ... * However, during the same period in Colo...

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Those who believe the war on drugs is effective, and those who feel it is a gross waste of money as well as a violation of human rights. ... This period in the coverage on the "war on drugs" followed a classic pattern of a slow initial increase in overall media attention, followed by a shift in emphasis to subjects of broader interest. Then interest in the drug issues increased sharply, peaked, and declined. ... The research that the National Institute on Drug Abuse conducted showed that American's use of illegal drugs increased throughout the 1970's. ...

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Since the passage of the Harrison Act in 1914, the federal approach to drug abuse control has included a variety of ways for reducing both the supply of, and demand for, illicit drugs. At first the supply and demand reduction strategies were grounded in the traditional deterrence model: Though leg...

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Philippe Bourgois's In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio has shown a great deal of commitment to the work that was involved in completing his research on poverty and marginalization. The field of study on poverty and marginalization by Philippe Bourgois was only twenty blocks from the area in Manhattan's Upper East Side known as East Harlem. However, those twenty blocks between the Upper East Side and the Puerto Rican population of East Harlem represent a social and an economic gap extending from mainstream to marginal. There are two dominant themes that play an importa...

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