"We have to take the power away from organized crime."
"The problem with the drugs trade with law enforcement is the corruption is endemic."
"The people who are good at smuggling drugs are good businessmen, they're entrepreneurs."
"Comerford is often cited as the first major importer of all the different drug groups."
"Liverpool became probably outside London the biggest center for expertise in that sort of smuggling market."
"You often hear like the big three cities for drug gangsterism are London, Liverpool, and Manchester."
"It is sad to see a child caught up in the dangerous trade of narcotic drug smuggling."
"America's legal marijuana boom has massively reduced the demand for illegal pots smuggled into the US curtailing cartel run imports from South America and Mexico."
"Without Federal legalization this Shadow Army of unremarkable cars will continue to fill the void of a regulated supply chain crisscrossing the country and delivering hundreds of tons of illegal pot."
"In essence, it's an extremely hostile environment, but I have to reiterate, it's the presence of people like me in that marketplace and it's general drugs policing and the use of police informants which creates that desperately violent marketplace."
"I never had to weigh out anything, all I had to do was take the product, transport it, and give it to my dealer."
"This is the freshest cocaine new to Los Santos."
"The Hells Angels were buying LSD crystals from Bear and tabling it up themselves."
"It's telling you the backstory of the drug dealer, how he got to this point, and also the sort of glory behind it, the glory of the 88 Doughboy clean in a beamer, but also the pitfalls of the game."
"She was the queen pin of the cocaine trade in 1980s Los Angeles."
"We decided to order a small amount, just one kilogram of cocaine."
"With the drug trade on pause, gangs around the world have started helping in their communities instead."
"Opium had become an existential threat to China."
"Drug dealing kick-starts a miserable cycle of addiction."
"We seized a total of 49 firearms, all kinds of other assorted drugs and pills worth 12.8 million dollars."
"$67 billion of drugs are coming into our country illegally."
"I mean, xanax is one that's so cheap too, like that [], I mean listening to you made me realize how much of the [] off the dark web is just being pressed by people."
"The three main producers around the world of heroin have become Mexico, mostly to serve the market in the United States."
"With the arrival of JJ, Shattered Shield was about to grow from a minor drug business to a booming Enterprise."
"Blanco oversaw a billion-dollar enterprise that moved over a ton and a half of cocaine into the US every month."
"That's why they called it crack, because they broke it down to a smaller form and started selling dollar pieces."
"And the US is the biggest consumer of that heinous activity so the cartels are involved in that various Mexican cartels and other foreign cartels."
"Colombian drug lords began consolidating their businesses into partnerships known as cartels."
"Miami became the prime point of entry for most of the cocaine smuggled into the country."
"In only a few years, the business had become large, sophisticated, and still very deadly."
"Spain seems to be the frontier of the cocaine trade."
"The globalization of crime has brought about an incredible intermingling of drug trade routes."
"I've heard stories of people going to prison to sell drugs in prison."
"The majority of gang violence in the United States is over illegal drug marketplace disputes."
"The Mexican drug trade benefited from the American marijuana boom of the 1960s."
"I never did bad shit to good people. The only robbery that I'm gonna tell you I have no remorse to is selling crack, because I sold crack to crackheads that love crack so you don't repent."
"USD cocaine and ecstasy are now just a click of a mouse away."
"Efforts to expand drug operations saw the Hoover criminals extending their reach beyond Los Angeles to cities like Seattle, Houston, Portland, and Oklahoma City."
"I was making nearly three thousand dollars a day selling dope."
"Season 5A: Walt becomes a kingpin of the meth trade following the death of Gus."
"Pablo Escobar ran probably one of the world's most successful and professional drug operations in the world. He was the CEO of drugs 101 if you would, kind of the Jeff Bezos of the drug industry."
"Most of the bloodshed occurs at the street level among users and dealers, but innocent people suffer too."
"I never took a fix and I never will. I wholesale to top head pushers."
"The drug game created a severe mental health crisis among young black men."
"See, the US federal authorities have declared a war on drugs and these dark markets really attract their attention."
"Zulma's brutal murder served as a chilling reminder of the depths of cruelty and violence that characterize Mexico's drug trade."
"Everything about this drugs trade, the numbers are crackers."
"Perhaps the biggest dealers of the drugs on the lower east side during World War One."
"Los Chapitos are responsible for the horrors that are happening in the US right now because of the most destructive drug on the market."
"The Chapitos pioneered the manufacture and trafficking of the deadliest drug our country has ever faced."
"Americans and all the rich Europeans love doing drugs so when there's money it's gonna find its way."
"He was a major player in the drug world, but his style was more that of a businessman."
"The poorest country in South America, one in every five people in the workforce owe their economic survival to the drug traffickers."
"The truly shutting down the drug trade would cause the Bolivian economy to collapse."
"But beyond those media clichés, we almost never stop to think about who these people actually are and why they choose to sell drugs in the first place."
"Drug running does become an avenue. It becomes an opportunity in a world that seems to be full of dead ends and cul-de-sacs and very limited other opportunities."
"The role of law enforcement, I would argue, is actually as a driver, a continued dynamic within these illicit drug markets."
"The dark net is an eBay for drugs, as we know."
"He was born as Pablo Escobar; he died the godfather of cocaine."
"The philosophy behind the Silk Road drugs market was it is a safer way of buying and selling drugs."
"If you didn't know they were cocaine dealers, you might think they were just another happy family."
"As long as there's this much money in drugs, there'll be another way to get it across."
"The cocaine keeps coming in, in spite of government spending of about 2 billion a year on border interdiction."
"Violent crimes have skyrocketed in Mexico as cartels fight over territory and the lucrative drug trade."
"Her firsthand account and bravery in speaking out have contributed to a better understanding of the dark side of the drug trade."
"You're a drug dealer, you're a drug pusher."
"That was when cocaine started flowing into the country from Colombia when crack cocaine hit the streets and When The War on Drugs truly started."
"This focus on supply and demand hints at the underlying business logic that drives the global drug trade."