every person counts: what can you do to help?

Beleive it or not stopping your drug addiction is not only saving your life but other peoples life to. By ending your addiction your are starting to make a change to end the war on drugs. Every time someone decides to quit drugs its one step closer to ending the war on drugs. so if you know someone who has a drug addiction mention to them what it took for the drugs to get to them and how they are supporting war.

Every dollar helps

from january 2007 to Febuary 2010, 9,903 drug realated deaths have occured in mexico. Innocent civilians die, 60 to 70 people are kidnapped there each month, and only 30 percent of these crimes are solved. The other 70 percent are not, beleive it or not if you buy illegal narcotics more than likely you are involved in these crimes and YOU are not supporting the war on drugs, but the war itself.

Drugs + War = Deaths

The death toll continues to rise south of the border, with Mexican authorities reporting that the number of people killed in drug-cartel related violence more than doubled in the first 11 months of this year. 2,413 people died between Jan. 1 to Nov. 30, 2007, and 5,376 homicides were reported during the same period in 2008. “It’s about 114 to 115 percent increase between then and 2008. These numbers are increasing very fast and have gotten to the point were innocent men women and children are being killed. Although mexico is organizing large groups of anti-drug armys. The drug cartels are multiplying and are fighting hard, hard enough for the war to be going on for this long.

what were doing to stop drug trafficing

"President Obama yesterday ratcheted up efforts to curb the flow of drugs and guns across the southern border, imposing financial sanctions against three of the most violent Mexican drug cartels and threatening to prosecute Americans who do business with them". america is slowly starting to help with the war on drugs between mexican mafias. as well as people in america doing business with the drug lords.

what cartels go threw to smuggle

At the San Ysidro crossing near the Mexican border, officials have found drugs smuggled in things such as tables, toys, furniture, holiday candles, even tennis shoes. Drugs also are brought in underground through tunnels; some 100 have been discovered since 1990 along the 1,950-mile U.S.-Mexico border. The most sophisticated tunnels have lights, air systems and hydraulics. While drugs flow north into the United States, weapons and cash flow south into Mexico. Ive learned that drug cartels are desperate to make there money and are doing whatever they could to get there drugs across there border into the U.S.

what are you really taking?

What are Mexico and Americas relations with drug trafficking and all the violence?

we chose this topic to talk about because most of the people who buy narcotics don't know to much about what there actually taking. Most drugs bought and sold are made of various chemicals that are very deadly if there not mixed correctly. chemicals such as methanol, ether, benzene, methylene chloride, trichloroethane, and toluene. Other common household chemicals include muriatic acid, sodium hydroxide, table salt, and ammonia. all these are used just to make one drug methamphetamine.