Drug trafficking has caused an unregulated black market in the U.S. This requires intelligence, in conjunction with law enforcement, to continue to control its affects on society. Concern involves other countries’ involvement in enforcing antidrug laws. Intelligence should also see how terrorists and drug cartels are bolstering drug trade for financial purposes, methods of soliciting clients, and methods of infiltrating our borders. This will allow an assessment to outline counter drugging methods.
The drug industry has a lucrative market that assists in short-term economic development for the respective countries, but a dramatic economic plummet quickly follows it. Given our current worldwide expansion, international policy mandates economic aid to countries embarking on curtailing drug proliferation. This aid offsets immediate economic decline because of losing the short-term advantages of the drug trade: “It is necessary for the international community to help countries in need to bear at least some of those costs and thus enable interventions that should prevent illicit crop cultivation and generate long-term gains” (International Narcotics Control Board, 2002, para. 59). Intelligence should also encompasses how best to assist countries in implementing antidrug laws, and to assist in the economic implications of such laws.
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Resources
International Narcotics Control Board (2002), Illicit Drugs and economic Development [Electronic version].
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