In the vast network of the drug trade, drug trafficking is the most crucial.
There would be no means to fulfill the demand of forty million users in North.
America without traffickers (5). These people use drugs for many different reason, but.
their is always a market. Consumers pay sometimes up to 10,000% mark up for drugs (1).
The families who live off the drug production industry in rural areas of Southeast Asia,.
Africa, and South America is infinite. They grow coca plants, poppy plants, and.
marijuana plants. Their vast fields produce the chemicals that so many people use and.
need. Many of these small countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Colombia, and Peru.
would simply collapse if the drug trade was abolished (1). Alone, Colombian growers and.
manufactures net four billion dollars annually (1).
Drug trafficking is a result of a simple economic principal, supply and.
demand. There are two main reasons why traffickers take the risk of smuggling drugs into.
the United States. The first being to fulfill their own need for the drug and also the need.
of the forty million customers. Since the beginning of time humans have used substances.
to achieve euphoric sensations (1). It is inevitable that people will use drugs; a sober.
population is impossible. People use drugs for four basic reasons. The first being to.
reduce the unpleasant anxiety and depression feeling that affects people's lives daily (3).
Secondly to enhance bodily sensations and to induce sensorial gratification of aesthetics.
(3). Drugs are a way to transcend the limits of the body; this is the third reasons why.
people use drugs (3). The fourth and final reason is to increase psychophysical.
performances(3). These four reasons are what scientists believe to be why people use and.
abuse drugs. The second and main reason why their is a business of trafficking narcotics.
is for the infinite amounts of money. The most popular cocaine trafficker in the 1980s.
