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Drug Trafficking and Violence

            "In 2003 the UN report stated that illegal drug trafficking globally generated an estimated 302 billion dollars or about 8 percent of the world's trade revenue. " Although efforts against the use of drugs have long been employed by various governments and organizations, illegal drug trade seems to never go away. Experts reason that the illegal sale of drugs will always exist due to supply and demand. Others take on a more optimistic view saying that drug use and distribution can be minimized almost to the point of extinction through greater regulation and enforcement of anti-drug. As evident in it's extensive yet secretive history, the global black market of drug trafficking has proven itself up to this point to be both never ending and changing to the restrictions and laws of drug trafficking of the future. .
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             The drug trafficking does not have a definite beginning for it has existed as long as the drugs themselves. Being that the drug trade was legal before the introduction of drug prohibition, the history of drug trade can be closely tied to that of drug prohibition. The first signs of drug prohibition or attempts to control drug use can be pinpointed back as far back as the early Islamic empire. The religious Islamic government and the passages within the Qur'an forbidding the abuse of alcohol Islamic law interprets the passages however as forbidding all intoxicants served as the main cause for the criminalization of drug possession and drug trade. This common trend of religious intolerance towards drug use also found itself present in Christian Europe, as Medieval Catholics and Protestants targeted users of hallucinogenic drugs by accusing them of witchcraft from there the fight to band drugs spread to other nations through . .
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             As anti-drug laws made their transition from religious to governmental enforcement, the degree to which drug marketing was cracked down as police and government officials became involved.


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