CCJS 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Plan Colombia, Golden Crescent, Tetrahydrocannabinol
17 Dec 2015
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Two necessary preconditions for drug use (each is necessary; neither is sufficient): Predisposition interest in drugs: focus on poverty, unemployment, subculture. Trafficking varies from drug to drug concerning how global it is. How drugs are distributed is crucial to our understanding of their use. Availability, price, purity, and the sources of the drug trade: While the illegal drug trade is huge, its scope has been hugely exaggerated. In the united states in 1980s, the total retail value of drug sales was estimated to be billion than the total net sales of. General motors, more than american farmers take in from all crops . Some interesting factoids: the dea and the colombian military launched 2 efforts to reduce cocaine production: Operation purple (after 2005: the 3 principles cocaine-growing countries are colombia, The myth of market centralization in the drug trade: How hierarchical, centralized, and organized it is. Drug dealing in the u. s. is highly decentralized and has become increasingly so.
