By: Valdemir Mota de Menezes , the Scribe
The numbers of the trade :
200 million drug users
45 000 tons of marijuana produced annually
Of the 192 countries in 146 countries for drug trafficking .
Moves 800 billion dollars annually on the planet .
DRUGS MOST COMMERCIALLY :
Marijuana - Double tar than cigarettes and attacks the lungs . Have benzopyrene which is highly carcinogenic .
Cocaine - the leaves were chewed by the Indians , was then synthesized in 1859 - affects the brain , the motor areas , causing intense agitation and accelerates aging .
Crack - appeared in 1985 - Bahamas - mixture of coca , baking soda or ammonia and water . Quickly addictive and leads to loss of reason .
Coca -Cola from 1885 to 1904 was made the basis of coca leaf , then changed its formula , there is controversy about its formula .
DEALERS RETAILERS
To use smaller market ( protected by law)
Use scouts and guards to prevent the arrest in flagrante
In Brazil the penalty provided is imprisonment from 5 to 15 years
The use of drugs to an addict is expensive , this turns into small dealer or committing crimes to get money to buy drugs .
CRIMES BECAUSE OF DRUGS
Corruption of minors , Burglary , Theft, robbery
BECAUSE TRAFFIC NOT COMPENSATE :
The three icons are trapped : Fernandinho Beira - Mar , Marcola and Juan Carlos Abadia
Dealers are victims of : ( 1 ) customers who do not pay , ( 2 ) holding of honest police officers , ( 3 ) the crooked cops who extort , ( 4 ) the other dealers who want to take the point of sale ( 5 ) citizens who denounce anonymously .
