Created by President Richard Nixon through an Executive Order on July 1973
What is the DEA
100
Title 21 U.S. Code § 841 - Prohibited acts A.
A global illicit trade involving the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of substances which are subject to drug prohibition laws.
What is the bill that regulates federal drug trafficking penalties?
What is drug trafficking?
100
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
What agency makes over 30,000 arrests each year related to the sales and distribution of illegal narcotics?
100
Which 2 Los Angeles street gangs were given crack cocaine by the CIA in the early 1980's?
What is the Crips and Bloods?
100
Vessels that are used to smuggle drugs overseas
What is Narco Submarines
200
This Mexican cartel was aided by the DEA
What is the Sinaloa cartel
200
A second time offense for having this 1 kilogram or more mixture of this drug will sentence you anywhere within the range of 20 years to life.
What is heroin?
200
Mexico
What drug trafficking country makes a business worth over $50 billion per year?
200
An official from this Mexican provence went on record saying that the CIA allowed for drug cartels to operate unopposed.
What is Chihuahua?
200
Humans have been used to smuggle drugs, now are using animals as well. How much money in drugs was found in the Labrador?
What is over $200,000
300
During these years the Sinaloa cartel rose to prominence with help from the DEA
What is 2006-2012
300
Another federal drug trafficking penalty, not included in the DEA chart, may be subjection to immediate _________.
What is deportation?
300
Over 32 percent
What percentage of all inmates in state prisons in the United States were either under the influence of drugs or in possession of drugs when arrested?
300
This meeting is what helped break information on the CIA's involvement in various forms of smuggling?
What is the Locke High School town hall meeting?
300
3 pounds of this drug was found inside the breasts of a woman in Colombia
What is Cocaine
400
This Operation purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders and arrest them
What is operation fast and furious
400
The largest drug smuggling bust in U.S. history.
What is the Gatun ship bust?
400
It concluded that members of the U.S. State Department "who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking... and elements of the Contras themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug traffickers"
What is the Kerry Committee report?
400
What publication implicated the CIA in having a hand in the Los Angeles drug trade
What is "From The Wilderness"?
400
How many underground drug smuggling tunnels have been found since the 90's
What is 125
500
In what other countries has the DEA used tactics similar to the ones used on the Sinaloa cartel
What is Colombia,Cambodia, Thailand, and Afghanistan
500
Title 21 U.S. Code § 841 - Prohibited acts A.
What is the bill that regulates federal drug trafficking penalties?
500
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, the first Mexican drug lord, provided a significant amount of funding, weapons, and other aid to the Contras in Nicaragua.
Who is known as the Godfather of the Mexican drug business?
500
What was the name of the terrorist group involved in the 1985 scandal that revealed the CIA shipping cocaine and weapons in exchange for hostages.
Who are the Contras?
500
This improvised cannon was confiscated in Mexicali and was used to launch what drug into California