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Drug Trafficking Proposal Essay

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Andrea Garcia
Govt 2306-21002
Professor MacArthur
November 20, 2017
Proposal
Throughout history people have been making and distributing drugs all over the world. North America in particular has been in an ongoing war with drugs for around 45 years. The United States interdiction policy first emphasized border enforcement starting with Nixon in 1971 and his "war on drugs" idea. Nixon's legacy was to shift attention abroad, focusing on drug policy as a piece of U.S. foreign policy. Nixon called for a supply-side reduction policy, which he proposed "to strike at the supply side of the drug problem to stop drug traffic by striking at the illegal producers of the drugs (Keck 50). Law enforcement has tried many things such as, tightening border security and increasing the money going toward these efforts to prevent drug …show more content…

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