AMERICA'S DRUG WAR

It's more than 40 years since America began it's 

"WAR ON DRUGS".

As I look back over the years it's interesting that the rhetoric gets very LOUD during election years...then comes to an almost grinding halt of public media SHOUTS after the votes 

This election session, the preliminary primaries in the divided Republican camp and a Democratic incumbent waiting for his challenger finds the National Media MUTE on the problem of the Drug Cartel's incursion into America.

Poppy Plants

The hot topic currently is CONTRACEPTION, rather than DRUG INTRUSIONS. Our analysis of the ongoing Drug problem is the lack of commitment by our legislators, government and all the superficial public agencies responsible for the protection of our borders. Drug Smuggling, Human Trafficking and Terrorist Infiltration into America finds our communities in the blind when it comes to curtailing, enforcement and even identifying the drug offenders.

Poppy Fields
Afghanistan

While our brave American Military protects the borders of Afghanistan, we inadvertently, or is it purposefully, protecting the POPPY fields. The fields produce worldwide drug supplies. Both on the legitimate market as well as the underworld. Millions are made monthly by the importation of Poppy Field products such as; Morphine for Pharmaceutical companies, or HEROIN for underworld street distribution.

South & Central American
Trafficking Routes

I watch the various media suggestions that Mexican Cartels are the primary distributors of illicit drugs,  with a large concentration on Marijuana and Cocaine, yet the Heroin Trade has awoken with greater challenges to America. The full blown Heroin epidemic has not yet been realized. America will see a rise in crime, overdose deaths, increased dysfunction of families and an underground economy and market place where souls are lost to the needle and cooked white powder. Street crimes will increase, street prostitution will grow and street corner drug marketplaces will  rebound from the days of the late 1960's.

Panama President
Manuel Noriega

Law Enforcement resources are stretched to it's limits dealing with seeing a "terrorist" around every lamppost. While drug shipments are reaching our borders with little intervention, we see media coverage of large seizures or the creation of a Drug Submarine to transport from South and Central American countries cocaine by the kilo's. However, Heroin is here, into American cities daily by airplane, ocean frieghters, containers and even I suspect governmental transports.

BRIEF HISTORY of the DRUG WAR.

President Richard Nixon

1968 - Bureau of Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) established

1969 - Heroin Addiction Study Links Crime

1970 - Narcotics Treatment Administration founded

1971 - U.S. Military in Vietnam develop Heroin Addiction

1971 - President Richard Nixon declares "WAR on DRUGS"

1971 - Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement founded

1972 - French Connection Heroin Smuggling Crime Group Shutdown

1973 - Drug Enforcement Administration established

1975 - President Ford issues a Paper of Drug Abuse

1975 - Cocaine seizures indicate a rapid growth in Cocaine Traffic

1978 - Asset Forfeiture begins

President Ronald Reagan

1979 - Columbian Drug Lord Uses Small Planes to Transport Cocaine

1979 - Cocaine Trade sees and abnormal increase in violence

1981 - Medellin Drug Cartel combine from three independent Drug Lords

1982 - Drug Cartel & Panama President Noriega agree to Cocaine Transport

1984 - Assassination of Columbia Attorney General by biker gang

1984 - Mexico "BUST of the CENTURY" by DEA & Mexican Authorities

1985 - Columbia EXTRADITES first Drug Traffickers to U.S.

Mid-1980's - Cocaine Transportr Routes move into Mexico

1985 - DEA Agent Camerena kidnapped & murdered in Mexico

1985 - Columbian Superior Court Judge Assassinated

1985 - Attack on C olumbian Supreme Court

1985 - CRACK Cocaine EXPLODES in NEW YORK

1986 - Presidnet Reagan signs ANTI-DRUG ABUSE ACT of 1986

1988 - Panama's President Manuel Noriega is Indicted by U.S. Justice Department

As you see year after year the "WAR on DRUGS" continues, mostly a band-aid approach through many Presidential Administrations and assassination's or the increase in drug population by American consumers for illicit drugs.

America is losing the battle for economic dominance due to a loss of manufacturing jobs. Yet, we have an under educated population who spend thier money on iullicit drugs. Public assistance funds, unemployment checks and disability retirement checks are being spent on the underground economy to keep spirits HIGH on drugs. Smoking Marijuana has an economic impact on American Society. The 1936 movie "Refer Madness" was a low budget film which recieved critical acclaim, stress the whackyness of smoking dope.

Today, American's across all economic venues smoke marijuana. The myth that marijuana leads to hard illicit drugs had validity in the mid-1960 thru the late 1980's since marijuana was being sold by street drug trade. This trade also has avaialble other illicit drugs; heroin, cocaine, crack etc...now the Oxycontin pharmacutical product has reached epidemic proportions, along with methanphetimine.

Welcom the the WAR ON DRUGS !!! It's FLUID, always changing and enforcement has become nothing more than using a bath-tub plug to close the leak in the dam.