china+on+drugs

Committee 10 Drug Trafficking China

Illegal drug trade has been around for as long as the drugs themselves have been. The profit gained from trading illegal drugs is huge, but the buyers are putting their own lives in jeopardy in order to use the drugs.There is not a single country not involved in the buying or selling of the illegal drugs. But, many countries are involved the producing of such drugs. For instance there are large poppy fields in Burma that produce opium. A major problem to the international community is that it is extremely hard to catch all shipments of smuggled drugs. Even though our technology has improved greatly and ways of catching the dealers have been significantly better, but as our technology improves, so do the drug lords'. They will always be a step ahead of our defenses to stop all illegal drug trading in the world.
 * __Background__**

__**United Nations Involvement**__

__**Country Policy**__ Even though the whole world is affected by illegal drug trading,China has been hit extremely hard. It all started during the first Opium War. August 23, 1839, Great Britain was losing its industry of opium selling, so they were selling it to the Chinese for cheap prices. The Chinese rebelled and lost. Now because of that, the Chinese became became"opium friends." But now, China has stepped up and are stopping illegal drug trading in China. To be caught with illegal drugs is now considered capital punishment.China is doing its best to make shure that it will not be the drug addicts as it was before. In only a matter of 15 months, china has solved 52,500 drug cases. The police have been able to arrest 1,279 drug trafficking gangs, 66,800 suspects, seized 7.2 tons of heroin, 2.994 tons of opium, 6.3 tons of methamphetamine hydrochloride, 2.74 tons of ketamine and 2.48 million Ecstasy pills.

__**Solutions**__ Though China is doing all it can to prevent the trade of illegal drugs, It is still not enough. That is why I have come up with the idea of IPOD (qu**I**t **P**roduction **O**f **D**rugs). This comity would consist of entirely volunteers to know that by selling illegal drugs, they are funding terrorism. IPOD will allow the producers of the drugs a chance to turn themselves in and will help fund the person to start a new life.