Drug dealers congregate in areas where they can thrive, areas where people need money and policing is limited. They offer huge sums of money to kids to run drugs for them. Kids and teens find it easier to gain access to drugs than alcohol, as long as they know where to go. Politicians continually put more money into drug enforcement and border control to try to stop this easy access, but with no significant outcome. Each year, 1.5 million people are arrested on drug charges and 400,000 are now in prison.
Drug offenders make up nearly a quarter of our prison population.
This process doesn't help anyone, especially since addicts continue to access drugs in prison. It is escpecially ironic that our government thinks it can keep drugs out of the United States when they canUt even keep them out of our own prison system. Drugs can be tampered with in order to sell more quantity with less potent product, making a bad drug even more dangerous. The criminalization of drugs has created an immense and sophisticated black market for gangster organizations. When police officers try to stop this, they become involved in a dangerous battle.