CAS IR 290 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Drug Harmfulness
20 Mar 2018
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Drove the rise of colombian cartels in the 1980s. By mid-1990s u. s. pressures drove drug trafficking to northern mexico each stage of this progression has expanded drug supplies and drug-related conflict and propelled the drug business further north. Overseas interventionist strategies have failed to stop the flow of drugs north. U. s. was unable to convince producer nations of the evils of coca and cocaine. Multipolar cocaine world existed between 1910 and 1945 legal cocaine was a perfectly peaceful enterprise legal cocaine economies did not spawn border-crossing contraband networks. Birth of illicit coke: 1947-1973 following ww2 the u. s. emerged as the uncontested power in world drug affairs. Geographically illicit cocaine was a decentralized, fluid, grassroots movement at first. Not the product of international mafia rings or cartels. Highland peasants joined the illicit coca production and trade in early 1960s. By early 1960s, coke was found almost everywhere in the southern hemisphere also had large consumer base in new york and miami.
