Drug Smuggling
This is the creating, selling and purchasing of illegal drugs on the black market.
What is drug smuggling?
The export of marijuana to the US comes primarily from this country
What is Mexico?
The President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has waged a brutal anti-drug campaign, encouraging Filipinos to do this to drug dealers and addicts alike.
What is kill?
The most commonly used illicit drug
What is marijuana?
These are criminal organizations with the intention of supplying drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements to formalized commercial enterprises
What are drug cartels?
This is what 95% of drug movement is over, through the use of boats and submarines.
What is water?
This country is known for “Cocaine Valley”
What is Peru?
The United States spends about this much money each year on the war on drugs for interdiction and intelligence.
What is $35-40 billion?
The fraction of Americans, aged 12+, who were illicit drug users in 2017
What is 1 / 9?
This level of violence is used to establish local power and intimidate potential enemies
What is extreme?
Most drugs enter the US through this country.
What is Mexico?
Afghanistan is the world's largest producer in this drug
What is opium?
Many European nations — such as the Netherlands and Switzerland — favor a more lenient approach toward fighting drugs, allowing for this type of use for marijuana
What is recreational?
In 1999, there was approximately $400 billion in annual trade of illicit drugs worldwide. It was approximately this percent of world trade (about the size of the Spanish economy)
What is 8%?
Shady these make it difficult to track the flow of ill obtained money
What are financial networks?
During this decade, aviation drug smuggling began
What is the 1970s?
Columbia and Bolivia are best known to sell this drug
What is cocaine?
Marijuana use is inversely related to this factor which is vital to the country's efforts to reduce illegal drug use
What is perceived harm?
Heroin use rose by this percent between 2007 and 2011
What is 75%?
Shutting down plantations, only forcing them to reappear somewhere else is an example of this strategy
What is relocation?
This was the first drug smuggled into the United States, introduced by the Chinese. It became popular because soldiers used it for pain killing
What is opium?
Dealers in Afghanistan make this much per year selling opium
What is $4 billion
In this country, the possession of 50 grams of heroin is punishable by death
What is China?
The number of new illicit drug users in 2013 in the United States
What is 2.8 million?
This is a strategy used that makes taking down a head not always take down the organization
What is decentralization?