Three clicks, an address or a credit card is all it takes to purchase some of the most risky drugs in the world. Many should know. There have been people who decided to find out how easy it is to purchase potentially deadly drugs. The next president of the United states will have to improve efforts when it comes to drug banning, intelligence, dealing, and tracing. The internet. You search for what you want and you buy it. Did you know that drugs like 25i- Nbome, k2, and synthetic marijuana can be purchased easily on the web with a simple keyword. This is one of the main reasons that the DEA has so many documented drug arrests. In 1999 the DEA recorded 41296 drug arrests (DEA,1999) . It can also be easily smuggled into the US from overseas. But overseas engagements usually involve man-made drugs. Then from the the smugglers hands into the hands of the local dealers it trickles into the local high schools, which many don’t think that drugs hit that close to home. Drug intelligence as described by former nurse of 20+ years is: “the ability to identify a drug or medicine by the chemical structure, similarities to their original form and/ or the ability to develop an antidote”. THe DEA is one of many …show more content…
You have to make your product look appealing or harmless. Drugs such as NBOME are unpredictable synthetic drugs most often found in a small sheet of miniscule tabs that then have a happy cartoon picture printed onto them and are packaged with a name such as ‘Smiles’. The DEA website states( “ The NBOMe compounds are substantially more potent than other hallucinogenic compounds, and the data suggest that extremely small amounts of these drugs can cause seizures, cardiac and respiratory arrest, and death.”) Once the deadly drug is made ,it makes its way to the dealer who sells it to people in the community. But local dealers often masquerade synthetics as the real thing and people don’t know until they’ve overdosed