Every business enterprise has the same goals when they first start out. That goal is to produce a
profit. A business that does not produce a profit will not be in business for very long. The same thing
goes for the drug business. Just in 2013, according to The Office of National Drug Control Policy, an
estimated $100 Billion worth of illegal narcotics were sold just in the United States. These drugs can
include but are not limited to Marijuana, Cocaine, Methamphetamine, and Heroine. Among these four,
the product that affects the financial markets the most is Cocaine. An estimated 38.3% of the drugs
trafficked into the United States is Cocaine. In the United States, a pure gram of cocaine can cost
around $150 (Business Insider). The top 3 cocaine producers in the world are Peru, Bolivia, and
Colombia, thanks to their weak governments lack of control, as well as the lush and vast farmlands for
the cocoa plant that is used to produce the cocaine (Business Insider).
It is not the trafficking of illegal drugs that affects the United States financially, it is the war
