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Lowering drug trafficking allows for lower crime rates, thus safer neighborhoods.

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Lowering drug trafficking allows for lower crime rates, thus safer neighborhoods.

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Laura Sharkey, "The Bogota Post"

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International collaboration is critical to combat drug cartels.

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International collaboration is critical to combat drug cartels.

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The Colombian government must have the required resources for and anti-drug operation to work. This assistance usually comes from foreign countries like the United States.

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University of Oregon

scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/24636/muchow_urs_2019.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.

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(Espitia 2).                              drug trafficking promotes violence and drug addiction  

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(Espitia 2).                              drug trafficking promotes violence and drug addiction  

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By making drugs less available to the public we can stop the spread of drug promoted violence and overall drug addiction

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(Palermo).                              The production of drugs leads to an overall increase of people who die of drug overdoses

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(Palermo).                              The production of drugs leads to an overall increase of people who die of drug overdoses

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limiting the number of highly addicted drugs given as prescriptions

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Some families born into high drug trading families don't have the means to a future any better than drug trading.
By providing more education to areas where drug trafficking is heavily influenced could give people more options to not be apart of drug trafficking

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Rebel groups such as FARC are also critical to the drug trade, as they use their profits to further their cause.

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Rebel groups such as FARC are also critical to the drug trade, as they use their profits to further their cause.

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Sandrine Gagne-Acoulon, OCCRP

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The rise of the drug trade can be attributed to the political fallout of the cold war.

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The rise of the drug trade can be attributed to the political fallout of the cold war.

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Steven Hyland, Ohio State University

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The drug trade is in connection to illicit terrorist groups, such as FARC to over-through the Colombian government and are financed through the drug trade
By stopping the drug trade through more international support Colombia would likely not be over-thrown

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The Colombian economy being heavily reliant on the drug trade for profit makes trying to stop the drug trade nearly impossible.
To take out the drug trade would mean taking out their overall system of which they trade, through technology, physically, and through social networks.

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The production and sale of drugs generates a great amount of wealth for Colombia’s economy. Colombia's economy is built on exportation of drugs so it is unlikely for that to change, if the drug trade were to come to an end, that would cause economic despair in Colombia. University of Oregon

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Defeat of drug cartels have led to a spike in foreign investment.

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Defeat of drug cartels have led to a spike in foreign investment.

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Michael Evans, George Washington University.

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Countries like the United States have a high demand for 🤬 which in turn causes Colombia to have a need to export a large supply of drugs. The increased exportations increases revenue and relations in global trade which helps Colombia's economy. If this exposure to the global economy was no longer prevalent, then the economy in Colombia could collapse. "Conflicts, Sustainable Development, and the Illegal Drug Trade in Colombia"

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The sale of drugs to foreign countries opens up their economy to globalization which in turn increases their economic status. By Colombia participating in global markets and entering globalization, it opens up Colombia to more economic opportunities and trades with other countries for commodities other than illicit 🤬 or marijuana so it is unlikely for Colombia to want to end this trade. "Parasites and Predators: Guerrillas and the Insurrection Economy of Colombia".

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Drug traffickers are benefitted from the illicit drug trade in Colombia because they are provided with higher salaries due to the difficulty of their job. The US and Colombia are actively trying to stop these drug trades in the form of border control stopping drug traffickers from smuggling drugs across state lines. While governments are trying to stop the drug trade, it is unlikely for this to happen because it benefits traffickers. "Overview of the Latin American Drug Trade"