international drug trafficing and how does it relate to crimainal justice system?
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It creates jobs & money. Its that simple.
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I don't know I can only say I hope its a LONG one. Retards that produce (and its prob meth) should go down as examples and be punished to the fullest. These drugs promote filth and crime, child molestation, and prostitution along with many other negative things. One does not produce drugs without knowing the awful effects, they just don't care. In jail you go my friend.....see ya butt head! (whoever it is)
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Depends on the crime. and your first sentence has nothing to do with the rest of the question. In the rest you say "they know" they will be punished.\n\nIf you had no job skills, had to drop out of school, oe even if you didn't but had a readily available supply of a product in which you can make more than most exectives, would a couple years in jail deter you.\n\nIf you were hooked on a drug and the only way to support your habit was selling drugs or prostitution what would you do.\n\nIf you had a habit and you needed to support it, would you pick buying the dope or robbing a house.\n\nMany people do it when they know they will probably die, and many want to.\n\nAs long as their is poverty there will be drugs and prostitution. Actually the biggest users of cocaine are the rich. Why don't you think the threat of losing there job, family and everything they own doesn't deter them.\n\nMany crimes are crimes of passion. No one thought about what they were doing before they did it. recidivism for these type crimes are very low.\n\nIf you are poor and you have children and you don't make enough to live, are you going to steal, lie, or let your kid starve. That isn't much of a choice.\n\nWhite collar people commit bigger crimes than poor people, like Boeing, but the government is not going to touch them and the biggest thing that happens is a slap on the wrist.\n\nHow to deter it depends on the crime. Eliminate poverty, make some drugs legal, and throw the book at people who commit white collar crime instead of letting them get away with it.\n\nThe other problem is who does the crime. If you are Bush, the records are sealed when they arrange to get you out of a cocaine bust, or Kennedy who was prosecuted, but essentially walked away from what could be a negligent homicide, or Rush Limbaaugh walks away from prescription drug abuse of a narcotic, oxcodon. What message does that send to the rich? Think you could make a deal if you were poor. You would be in jail so fast.\n\nLook at Bush and his insider trading, and the rest of the Bush family who stole millions during the S & L scandal which we paid back 2.1 TRILLION dollars. Their penalty? NADA!\n\nI don't think there is a quick answer, especially the way the criminal and court system are set up. \n\nIf the law was really blind, which it isn't, perhaps a lot of crime would stop.
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Child Abuse (domestic, international, internet)\nChild Trafficking\nRefugee and displaced children\nHIV Aids and other life threatening diseases\nPoverty\nImmigration Detention of minors\nHuman Rights\nTorture
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The stock market would be perturbed. Other forms of criminality would know a sharp increase. The agriculture of some countries would be severed and so the local economies. Petty crimes would know a rise in some areas. \n\nAccording to the DEA and to many other experts, (illegal) estimates vary. The drug market would represent about 3.5 to 8 percent of the world GDP. This estimate include all by-products, which are cover up companies and business activities, legal fee and lawyer incomes, budgets of drug enforcement administrations, shipping, prisons costs, etc.
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No, I don't think there's any correlation.  The type of work that illegal immigrants do, precludes having a lifestyle that includes drugs.  Once an affront to your civil liberties is taken away, and we continue like sheep to comply, it's never given back.
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Not much. This isn't a really an answer but prohibition on alcohol in the 1920's didn't work. As long as there a demand\nfor drugs and alcohol there will always be a way to find it legal or not. I lived in Holland and Marijuana was legal. A lot of other drugs were legal. The crime rate was VERY low.\nYou could go to your pharmacist and get heroin by prescription. This country still has a moral problem viewing drug addiction as a crime rather than a disease. Like alcoholism. It's harder to quit and does more damage than heroin addiction. This country needs to wake up and realize that if people want help it is there for them . If they want their disease to progress that is yup to them also.\nI hope I helped
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Hello,\n\nWhat do you mean deal with them? Our government has been dealing drugs on our American streets since the 1960s.\n\nHere, read about what our CIA has been doing. How our own government is degrading our soceity through illegal drugs.\n\nHope this helps you......................................................   : - O
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I think it is better this way,do you want your son to get caught having drugs?This is just helping the investigation to catch the drug dealer and the people above.If they caught the drug addict,they'll get to drug dealer and the rest.Malaysia is trying to bust all of drug,but some crazy making money still selling them.I feel a bit disappointed in those people. Anyway,you shouldn't feel humiliated,you are helping the investigation,although nothing has came out from it.well done!
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The laws are same as most other countries. If someone is caught with upto 2 gms of narcotic substance then he(or she) may face smaller sentence (usually 1 year). If someone is caught is more than 2 gms or several packets then he is considered as a dealer or seller and can be punished with harsher jail sentence (more than 3 years). Also, if the police finds evidence of someone funding purchase of narcotics then such people are also treated as sellers of narcotic.\n\nHowever, there are some forms of intoxication (that are as good as narcotics) like - Ganja (I am not sure what it is called in English) - that are in use for many centuries and no one is caught for smoking it.
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The Asia Foundation launched an Asia Region web portal (www.tipinasia.info) that enables government and non-governmental organizations in 10 countries to become more efficient and effective in combating trafficking in persons.\nFoe further details go to http://www.asiafoundation.org
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When they are committing a CRIME, they already ARE a criminal. It is not making a criminal out of a "normal" person. And face it folks, illegal drugs are just that, ILLEGAL. Hence, they are against the law and posession or distribution of them is a criminal act. Someone committing a criminal act, is by definition a criminal. It is that simple.\n\nAs for jail time. It depends on the person, the history, etc. Just as with many other crimes, the judge must weigh all the facts and make a decision. But if the judge deems that jail time is right for that offender, then jail time it should be. If you do the crime, you have to be ready to pay the piper. And these drug using morons cannot use ignorance as an excuse. They KNOW it is a crime. It is puzzling why they think that their will is greater than the will of the country, and the law. The "if it feels good to me it must be ok" mantra that is prevalent in much of the younger generation is getting out of control.
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I've asked this same question ... makes no sense to me.  "Some" child molestors, people convicted for homicide, murder, rape ... get less time than than drug dealers.  I beleive the governement is pissed because they lose "tax" money on the drug industry so they will at least squander and pilfer the money from the dealers through prison time.
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Drug-related crime would go down. Drug-Induced crime would stay about the same.\n\nLegalized drugs would demolish the drug trade. It would also increase tax revenue. It would also diminish the appeal of drugs, since they could be gotten at any specialized store.\n\nBut this would not eliminate all the drug problems. There will always be a difference between those who use the "socially" and those that abuse them. I'd imagine we'd have scenarios similar to alcohol, where there are those that use it in a social situation for a good time but there are others who abuse it.\n\nHowever, compare the user/abuser scenario to what we have now. Billions of dollars each year are funneled into the DEA, fighting a "war" that can never be won. Endles violence from cartel wars down to armed robbery for a fix. The list goes on.\n\nLegalizing it makes the prices go from astronomical to economical. You eliminate the illicit trade crossing the borders. Cartel and gang drug related violence would drop like a rock. And since the use/user is being tracked, it would be much easier to follow those that have bad habits.\n\nPlus, we'd get some amount of cash back in the government for other projects.\n\nThere would still be problems to be sure, but I believe it would be a net positive gain.\n\n~X~
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I agree wholeheartedly, but for some reason, many people, especially people in legislatures, think that drugs are the worst thing ever. I think it's absolutely absurd that someone who actually killed someone could theoretically get less time than most people do for dealing drugs.
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The same kind of people who feel the solution the the health issue of drug abuse is best handled by prisons...the same people who think that the US will bring democracy to other countries even if we have to kill all the "evil doers" to accomplish our goal.\n\nThere are real problems associated with illegal immigration, but it won't be solved by criminalizing the issue...that is how totalitarian regimes solve problems...hopefully the USA is better than that.
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It's great fot drug smugglers and dealers, and it's good for the law-enforcement industry (and it IS an industry).\n\nApart from that, it's largely ineffective.  \n\nLegalization would drive prices down; taxation would regulate usage and fund treatment for  addicts.  And just think of all the prison cells vacated for violent criminals!