cocaine in columbia
Ron Paul once said, “If you want to get rid of all the drug related crime, you would have to get rid of all the drug laws”. Although Ron Paul was an American politician, the quote is very fitting for one of the most notorious and leading producers of illegal drugs in the world, Colombia. Drug production was introduced in Columbia in the 1960s with production of marijuana, which was a gateway to the production of Cocaine in the early 1970’s. Why the production, and formation of huge Cartels, just to produce and distribute a psychoactive drug? Money! The return is huge and by that I mean cocaine is produced at $1500/kilo in jungle labs and could be sold on the streets of America for as much as $50,000/kilo. Unfortunately, there is a demand for cocaine and will continue to be one, why? United states of America, with one in six, American citizens admitted to using Cocaine, America will continue to be the number one buyer of cocaine and Colombia will most likely continue to be the number one producer. Although Colombia is responsible for the production and distribution of the cocaine, it is the United States, that are just as guilty, mainly for using the drug, and creating such a demand for such an appalling drug. Cocaine as they call it, the rich mans drug, is sold mainly to rich, upper-class American citizens with 87 % of them being between the ages of 18-35, but cocaine can be created and combined with other chemical compounds, to be formed into much more dangerous drug one of them being the very addictive crack-cocaine. Crack-cocaine, or more commonly just called crack, is the most additive form of cocaine. And although Cocaine is used most commonly by upper-class citizens, who use it as said “party drug”, or for sleep deprivation, Crack on the other hand is much more prevalent in lower-class societies and poses a much bigger threat in the United states. Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the opposite, intense depression,