The Business of Illicit Drugs

Introduction

Understanding today's drug scene—with its shootings, wasted lives and ravaged neighborhoods—requires more than empathy for its victims. Doing something about it requires more than proper police procedures. That is because the drug scene, at its root, is a business story. The law of supply and demand may be distorted by the illegal nature of the product, but in many ways the drug business operates like any other business.

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