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Law Enforcement Officials Law Enforcement Agencies
1,893 wordsHemp: A Crop With no Future For This Society Throughout many areas of the United States a small, slender plant can be found growing in the wild. It is commonly referred to as hemp. Hemp is a plant that comes from the Cannabis sativa family. Hemp looks strikingly similar to marijuana and can very easily be mistaken for it, but these two plants are far from being the same. The major difference between the two is that hemp contains no chemicals that produce the same euphoric effect produced by mari...
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Federal And State Prison Inmates
725 wordsDrug abuse takes a toll on society that can only be partially measured. While we are able to estimate the number of drug-related crimes that occur each year, we can never determine fully the extent to which the quality of life in America's neighborhoods has been diminished by drug-related criminal behavior. With the exception of drug-related homicides, which have declined in recent years, drug-related crime is continuing at a strong and steady pace. Numerous Drug-Related Arrests Occur Each Year....
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Nineteenth Century Drug Trafficking
1,743 wordsMexican history boasts of long and advanced civilizations that make most European civilizations seem primitive. The first inhabitants were said to have arrived at about 2000 B. C. With the Mayan Empire being constructed in about the 12 th century. However within the last two centuries Mexico has had relatively little success, consistent victims of imperialist powers the culture has suffered a great deal. The largest blow occurring when America annexed California by force. This last act of aggres...
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Colombian Government Safe Haven
1,628 words... stray rounds in the attack. Strength Approximately 9, 000 to 12, 000 armed combatants and several thousand more supporters, mostly in rural areas. Location/Area of Operation Colombia, with some activities-extortion, kidnapping, logistics, and R& R-in Venezuela, Panama, and Ecuador. External Aid Cuba provides some medical care and political consultation. A trial is currently underway in Bogota to determine whether three members of the Irish Republican Army-arrested in Colombia in 2001 upo...
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Law Enforcement Agencies Drug Trafficking
1,315 wordsThe drug cartel based in Cali, Colombia, was one of the largest players in the multi-billion dollar worldwide cocaine industry. Although their operations are highly illegal, opposed by both Colombian and US law enforcement agencies, the cartel continues to run a very effective operation. The vast majority of this cocaine is destined for the US market. It reaches the US by numerous routes by air, by sea, but mostly over land by Mexico. Once the cocaine reaches the United States, Cali has makes us...
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Jorge Luis Nova Scotia
2,776 wordsColumbia is South America fourth largest country. It is about 440, 831 square miles long and its capital is Bogota with the population of 27 million people. Columbia greatest agriculture crops are drugs and coffee. Columbia is one of the world largest producers of the drugs cocaine, and heroin producing 50, 900 hectares of coca that they sold 75 % to the United States. (CIA database) Drug dealers and drugs control Columbia and are the new Mafia and gangsters, who smuggle drugs in the United Stat...
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War On Drugs Drug Cartels
1,749 wordsLatin America is a large region made up of many diverse countries. A large portion of these countries have enormous problems with corruption. Two of these countries, Mexico and Colombia. , have gained a great deal of attention due to their problems. The difficulties these countries have are even more complex in that they effect other more prominent countries immensely. When looking more closely at the two, it becomes interesting to observe the contrasting features of the corruption in each natio...
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Organized Crime Crime Prevention
505 wordsOrganized crime is a problem that has spread all throughout the international community. In the past, national and regional crime organizations were small, isolated and worked independent of other crime organizations. However in the past few decades free trade and high speed telecommunications has made it easier for such groups to operate, therefore resulting in global Mafiosi that seem to be working together around the globe. This new development makes it hard for governments and the United Nat...
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