The understanding of the global trade provides better information about the current situation. By understanding the global trade, the economies that are facing the problem of the drug trade can be analyzed. There are many counties around the globe that are facing the problem of the drug trade. In these economies the teenagers are mostly involved I in the drug trade. However, now women are also taking part in the business of trading drugs. There are female drug smugglers on the US-Mexico border. The involvement of women in the drug trafficking has increased in the recent years. Their involvement in such activities are due to the cultural and the economic factors that play a strong role in shaping the involvement of women in the smuggling of drugs and exerting the impacts of smuggling on their lives. Moreover, if Asian countries are considered then they are also facing the issue of the drug trade, most of the people are unable to find job in the Asian countries and they are involving in the illegal business of the drug trade in order to earn their livelihood, so they can fulfill their needs as well as the needs and requirements of the family. The drugs are smuggled in vast quantities in different countries, such as it is noted that hundreds of tons of the cocaine is smuggled via the plane, automobile, tunnel, boat, catapult, and the backpack in the United States.
Moreover, the history of the drug trade has also helped in understanding the drug trade at present. For example, it is analyzed that in India, the the use of the drugs particularly cocaine increased in the the nineteenth century. The impact of this increase can be still seen today, where a large number of people are involved in trading of drugs on illegal basis. Moreover, the use of the opium increased in the eightieth century, which increased further in the nineteenth century. Still the use of opium is common in the United States as it is used in the medicine as well used by people who are addicted to the use of drugs, and a large quantity of opium is also traded illegally. The drugs have shaped the history of human. In the past, they are used for the medical purposes such as opium, and by the population in a socially accepted manner such as in the form of alcohol, caffeine and nicotine. Furthermore, another example of the fact that the drugs have shaped the human history is that the plantation of the tobacco has improved the standard of the empire and lower prices have enabled the European consumers to improve their standard of the living. In a nutshell, the understanding of the global trade, and its history help to analyze the recent pattern of the drug trade that is prevailing in most of the countries. The drugs have played an important role in shaping the history associated with humans by improving their standard of living.
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