Who Started This Mess Anyway?

The drug trade is a worldwide market consisting of production, distribution, packaging and sale of illegal substances.

The illegality of the black markets purveying the drug trade is relative to geographic location.

But how did this all get started?

In order to understand how the drug problem has reached epidemic proportions, it is important to know what has gone on in our past.

First lets look at the current financial scene.

Some estimates placed the value of the global trade in illegal drugs at around $400 billion in the year 2000; that, added to the global trade value of legal drugs at the same time, totals to an amount higher than the amount of money spent for food in the same period of time.

In the 2005 United Nations World Drug Report, the value of the global illicit drug market for the year 2003 was estimated at US$13 billion at the production level, at US$94 billion at the wholesale level, and at US$322 billion based on retail prices and taking seizures and other losses into account.

As you can see we have a very large drug war in our hands.

So how did this come about?

A Drug War Begins

While the use of drugs dates way back thousands of years, we are talking about how the drug trade evolved to the global business it is today.

The First Opium War was an attempt to force China to accept illegal drug trade from British drug dealing merchants to the general population of China.

Smoking opium was normal in the 1800s and was said to cure many health problems.

A Little Background British importation of opium in large amounts began in 1781.

The drug was produced in India under a British government monopoly (Bengal) and in the Princely states (Malwa) and was sold on the condition that it be shipped by British traders to China.

As you can see it was all about business.

A Direct Impact on Your Life Because disputes cannot be resolved through legal means, participants at every level of the illegal drug industry are inclined to compete with one another through violence.

Some statistics have shown that a large percentage of murders recorded are a result of the drug trade.

Just look around your neighborhood and realize that most of the crime going on is a result of drugs.

All this adds up to more expense and in many cases family disaster.

The victims in all this mess is our children.

Drug dealers know that the best time to get someone hooked is at a young age.

They prey on the young not being experienced enough to know the difference between good drugs and bad drugs.

This is where they ply their trade.

To that degree there is something we can all do that combats their marketing plans directly.

Put the Friends of Narconon Drug Education Video Program into our schools.

Teachers are desperate for solutions and our youth want answers.

They both need our help.

So whatever you do, think about this.

Are you going to let history repeat itself and win?

Call Donna Miller today and sponsor some schools today! 1-800-882-6862

Sincerely,
Robert Hernandez, CCDC*

President, Friends of Narconon, Intl.
*Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor

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