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Narcotics

Narcotics. An industry. The drug market. A global network of illegal trade A $321 billion per year industry. Street value of narcotics. Heroin is around $170per gram A nearly $64 billion per year market A quarter of the profits go to the opium farmers in Mexico in Afghanistan

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Narcotics

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  1. Narcotics An industry

  2. The drug market • A global network of illegal trade • A $321 billion per year industry

  3. Street value of narcotics • Heroin is around $170per gram • A nearly $64 billion per year market • A quarter of the profits go to the opium farmers in Mexico in Afghanistan • The money also ends up with dealers, warlords and traffickers.

  4. The Sinaloa cartel • Strongest drug cartel in the Western Hemisphere • A coalition of drug dealers and gangs throughout northwest Mexico • Has ties to federal government and police. • Smuggle nearly 330 tons of illegal narcotics per year. (≈$50,893,063,914 in heroin)

  5. In October federal and local law enforcement arrested 70 drug smugglers in Arizona • Officials say the cartel was using ground and aerial vehicles to move drugs into stash houses in small communities in Arizona. • Over one hundred weapons and ammunition for weapons were also seized. • More searches are planned to stop the cartel from selling in the U.S.

  6. Sinaloa in other news • Mexico extradites Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla • California authorities seize bombs and weapons • Beheadings, kidnappings, and murder • Guzman Loera, leader of the Sinaloa cartel ranked 701st on Forbes self made billionaires in 2009

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