‘Golden Triangle’ and the ‘Golden Crescent’: The Global Drug Menace — voiceurviews.com

There has been an exponential increase in the trafficking and consumption of illicit drugs in the past decade, which highlights a growing influence of these drugs on the generation of today as well as the booming black market creating a nexus of drug traffickers, organized criminal networks and terrorists, which are creating an anarchy and disruption in international order and stability. Let us try to understand the organized crime syndicate of the drugs and how the circulation of these substances takes place in lieu of the present status quo. The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has done an extensive analysis of the condition of the drug trade, firearm trade and trafficking of humans. It has arrived at certain conclusions which would be of pertinence to be stated at this junction.

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