Illegal drug trade
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The drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production, distribution, packaging and sale of illegal psychoactive substances. The illegality of the black markets purveying the drug trade is relative to geographic location, and the producing countries of the drug markets (many South American, Far East, and Middle East countries) are not as inclined to have "zero-tolerance" policies, as the consuming countries of the drug trade (mostly United States and Europe) are. The economic reality of the massive profiteering inherent to the drug trade serves to extend its reach despite the best efforts of enforcement agencies worldwide. In the wake of the economic reality, the social consequences (crime, violence, imprisonment, social unrest) of the illicit drug trade are undeniably problematic.
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In the media
Drug smuggling was the topic of:
Films
- Easy Rider (1969)
- The French Connection (1971)
- Live and Let Die (1973)
- Midnight Express (1978)
- Scarface (1983)
- The Untouchables (1987)
- Bangkok Hilton (1989)
- Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
- License to Kill (1989)
- Air America (1990)
- Goodfellas (1990)
- King of New York (1990)
- New Jack City (1991)
- Rush (1991)
- Deep Cover (1992)
- True Romance (1993)
- Clear and Present Danger (1994)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Clockers (1995)
- Bad Boys (1995)
- Trainspotting (1996)
- Bullet (1996)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
- Brokedown Palace (1999)
- Traffic (2000)
- Requiem for a Dream (2000)
- Saving Grace (2000)
- Blow (2001)
- The 51st State (2001)
- Collateral Damage (2002)
- Empire (2002)
- Spun (2002)
- 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
- City of God (2003)
- Bad Boys II (2003)
- A Man Apart (2003)
- Maria Full of Grace (2004)
- Layer Cake (2004)
- Starsky and Hutch (2004)
- Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (2005)
- Miami Vice (2006)
- Cocaine Cowboys (2006)
- The Departed (2006)
- How High (2006)
- Protégé (2007)
- Alpha Dog (2007)
- American Gangster (2007)
- Tropa de Elite (2007)
- We Own the Night (2007)
- No Country for Old Men (2007)
- Pineapple Express (2008)
- Tropic Thunder (2008)
- Reefer Madness (2008)
TV Series
- The Wire (2002-2008)
- Oz
- Weeds
- Breaking Bad
- Traffic
- Banged Up Abroad
- South Park (1998-)
- El Cartel
- Miami Vice
- Kingpin
- Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities (miniseries)
- The Shield
- Twin Peaks
- The Untouchables
- Underbelly (miniseries)
Novels
- Go Ask Alice (1971)
- Trainspotting (1993)
- Crank (2004)
- Glass (2007)
- The Power of the Dog (2005)
- Devil May Care (2008)
- The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (1972)
- Without Remorse
- Tweak
- Junk
- Junky (1953)
