Part of my blog is social awareness. Even if my blog focuses on beautiful people and beautiful places and sometimes trivial things I would also like to discuss things of social relevance. One of which is drug trafficking.
Drug trafficking is the illegal production and distribution of controlled substances. According to one report I read the US is the world's largest market for illegal drugs with some 13 million Americans spending about $600 billion each year on this illicit business. The drugs range from marijuana, cocaine and heroine and synthetic drugs like amphetamines and the designer drug Ecstasy. It is just sad to know that this illegal business is just ruining a lot of families and kids in our society.
The Colombian traffickers are responsible for large cocaine production and just recently reported they also are into heroin production as well. The bizzare twist is that these illegal drugs are generally inexpensive to produce but they are sold to users for a higher cost than the cost to make them.
Most of the users in the United States are mostly from suburban areas. It is just a bit surprising to think that these drugs which used to be prevalent in the inner cities has already infiltrated the suburbs where middle income families are being affected. The drug packages for heroin and cocaine are usually packed in sugar packets designed with Skull graphics or labeled Prada (yes, just like the designer brand) to appeal to younger people.
Whether you agree or not, using illegal drugs (marijuana, heroin, cocaine, amphethamine, meth amphethamine, ecstasy and all superior and inferior forms of these drugs) can cripple you emotionally, mentally and financially. It might not happen now but in your unseen future its deadly effects will just creep suddenly on you and before you know it, everything is too late to resolve. I do hope that this short blog will open our eyes in fighting the use of illegal drugs.
Photo Credit: Heroin Addict in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Photographer: Achille Piotrowicz
Photo Stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/a_chill_e/
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