Drug trafficking is high in the state of New York, because of its proximity to international boundaries, as well as the quick access to major highways, airports, and waterways. These quick entry and exit levels in and out of New York make it easy for the cartels to smuggle drugs. Because of the great access to each mode of transportation, drug transporting regarding to its selling and distribution in New York is both an intense and large business.

State and federal law enforcement have joined together to attempt to reduce drug smuggling in New York. Although steps are being taken to fight this illegal activity, it will take a few years to really get control of these problems.

It is not just the illegal issues of drug activity, but other aspects, that are the result of drug peddling, as follows:

•    Crimes resulting from drug activities

Rapes, burglaries, thefts. Murders, among others are the result of drug related activities, and these issues are left to the New York law enforcement to handle and/ or solve.

•    Health related issues  resulting from drugs

From “over dosing” to herpes, Aides, Hepatitis, etc, these illnesses are prevalent among drug users, because of illicit activities related to unprotected sex and other promiscuous actions.

•    Monies spent  due to drug trafficking

New York spends a huge sum of monies each year to prevent, treat, cure, and curtail drug activities.  As drug use is reduced, so will the problems that go “hand in hand” with it.  As these problems decrease, New York’s financial burdens will also lessen, thus making it a state of more profitability.

Another reason that New York experiences a high volume of drug activity is its metropolitan cities. Here, the great mass of people makes it easier for drug trafficking to take place unnoticed. The population is so great that it is hard to keep track of drug problems, until they have infiltrated. Law enforcement is attempting to “fight the drug problems”; however it is an ongoing one! This is why this battle is such a financial drain on the state of New York.

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1.   Jillian Galloway   |  Thursday, 02 September 2010 at 4:47 pm

   $113 billion is spent on marijuana every year in the U.S., and because of the federal prohibition *every* dollar of it goes straight into the hands of criminals. Far from preventing people from using marijuana, the prohibition instead creates zero legal supply amid massive and unrelenting demand.

   According to the ONDCP, at least sixty percent of Mexican drug cartel money comes from selling marijuana in the U.S., they protect this revenue by brutally torturing, murdering and dismembering countless innocent people.

   If we can STOP people using marijuana then we need to do so NOW, but if we can’t then we need to legalize the production and sale of marijuana to adults with after-tax prices set too low for the cartels to match. One way or the other, we have to force the cartels out of the marijuana market and eliminate their highly lucrative marijuana incomes – no business can withstand the loss of sixty percent of its revenue!

   To date, the cartels have amassed more than 100,000 “foot soldiers” and operate in 230 U.S. cities, and Arizona police are now conceding that parts of their state are under cartel control. The longer the cartels are allowed to exploit the prohibition the more powerful they’re going to get and the more our own personal security will be put in jeopardy.