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The Story of Drug Trafficking

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  • 2020-2020
  • 1 Season
  • Questar Entertainment
  • Documentary, Suspense
  • TV-14
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The growth of the world's narcotics trafficking system has mirrored the growth of the world's economic system in many surprising ways over the past two-and-a-half centuries. Currently, illicit drug production and usage runs rampant throughout the world, with the health of humankind suffering as a consequence, with no apparent end to illicit, addictive drug sales in sight.

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Robert C. Bonner
Self
Andrew W. McCoy
Self
Alfred W. McCoy
Historian United States

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Episode 1

L'ère des empires

Thu, Feb 26, 202653 mins

The spiritual carnage drug addiction has wreaked globally over time was seeded in 1790 as globalization began in earnest. In the next 181 years, key geopolitical countries grappled with issues stemming from governmental ideologies, economies of scale, and sociological systems. Strikingly, narcotics became entrenched in just about every aspect of the rise of globalization throughout this period up to Nixon's War on Drugs.

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