About Drug Trafficking
Drug trafficking is a common occurrence throughout the United States, but in some places it is more common than others.
Drug dealers have to move their product from where it is grown or manufactured to where the market for the drugs is, but they can be hundreds if not thousands miles apart.
The interstate freeway system found throughout America facilitates the illegal drug trade because it makes it very easy to transport drugs in personal cars, shipping trucks or trains from one location to another.
There are also relatively few checkpoints between some states, though DEA agents often maintain a presence at trucking weigh in stations in order to combat the flow of illegal substances from one state to another.
There are many problems that arise from drug trafficking in the United States.
One of the most common problems is crime.
Because so many of the drugs trafficked are illegal, the people that want to buy them and sell them are by definition criminals.
Furthermore, the desire to make large profits off the drug trade makes dealers and buyers targets for murder, extortion and theft.
Not only that, but the dealers of drugs are often street gangs and have ties to the criminal organized crime underworld, and the sales of the illegal or sometimes even legal drugs like alcohol, cigarettes and prescription medication can provide funding for any number of their nefarious activities.
In order to combat the illegal drug trade coming into the United States and from homegrown producers that sell their drugs across state lines, the federal government has over its history enacted a number of laws under various constitutional and interstate commerce clauses.
From alcohol prohibition in the 1920s to the so-called "War on Drugs" of today, federal, state and local jurisdictions have tried to stem the tide of the flow of illicit substances, to varying degrees of effect.
The effectiveness of the War on Drugs has had mixed results.
Now non-violent criminals are arrested and treated the same as murders, rapists and other capital offenders simply because they run afoul of constitutionally-questionable laws.
These arrests are indicative of a society that would rather hideaway its problems, rather than address them through the law or offer rehabilitation or treatment.
People arrested for drug trafficking in the United States need to understand that they have rights.
Although it can seem that the deck is stacked against them, the reality is that everyone in this country, whether you are a citizen or not, is entitled to legal defense in order to preserve your rights and your freedom.
Drug dealers have to move their product from where it is grown or manufactured to where the market for the drugs is, but they can be hundreds if not thousands miles apart.
The interstate freeway system found throughout America facilitates the illegal drug trade because it makes it very easy to transport drugs in personal cars, shipping trucks or trains from one location to another.
There are also relatively few checkpoints between some states, though DEA agents often maintain a presence at trucking weigh in stations in order to combat the flow of illegal substances from one state to another.
There are many problems that arise from drug trafficking in the United States.
One of the most common problems is crime.
Because so many of the drugs trafficked are illegal, the people that want to buy them and sell them are by definition criminals.
Furthermore, the desire to make large profits off the drug trade makes dealers and buyers targets for murder, extortion and theft.
Not only that, but the dealers of drugs are often street gangs and have ties to the criminal organized crime underworld, and the sales of the illegal or sometimes even legal drugs like alcohol, cigarettes and prescription medication can provide funding for any number of their nefarious activities.
In order to combat the illegal drug trade coming into the United States and from homegrown producers that sell their drugs across state lines, the federal government has over its history enacted a number of laws under various constitutional and interstate commerce clauses.
From alcohol prohibition in the 1920s to the so-called "War on Drugs" of today, federal, state and local jurisdictions have tried to stem the tide of the flow of illicit substances, to varying degrees of effect.
The effectiveness of the War on Drugs has had mixed results.
Now non-violent criminals are arrested and treated the same as murders, rapists and other capital offenders simply because they run afoul of constitutionally-questionable laws.
These arrests are indicative of a society that would rather hideaway its problems, rather than address them through the law or offer rehabilitation or treatment.
People arrested for drug trafficking in the United States need to understand that they have rights.
Although it can seem that the deck is stacked against them, the reality is that everyone in this country, whether you are a citizen or not, is entitled to legal defense in order to preserve your rights and your freedom.