Dancing on a Volcano: The Latin America drug trade Drugs are a worldwide concern and can be found in probably every society on the planet. There is so much done to prevent drug trade but yet it still flourishes all over the globe. The drug trade is a $100 billion industry annually that will a...

The part of the movie we watched in class started off by introducing some of the characters. There was Benny, Carrot, Lil' Zé, and a few others. There seems to be a party going on, Benny's going away party where all the different groups have all seemed to mesh together to say goodby...

Ethnography in the City: Phillipe Bourgois and the Barrio Cities exist for many reasons and the diversity of urban form and function can be traced to the complex roles that cities perform. Cities serve as centers of storage, commerce, and industry. The agricultural surplus from the surround...

Club drugs are becoming an increasingly prevalent part of pop culture with a devastating effect on the users. In a new day and age of urban culture a large group of individuals are experimenting with what are known as club drugs. Clubs drugs include a group of diverse compounds that are capable of...

Issue 1: If drugs were legalized, would drug use increase or decrease? Would crime and additional drug-related problems worsen or not? If illegal drugs were decriminalized, the same people who use drugs now would probably continue to use them. However, they wouldn't have to steal to supp...