1985 Kiki Camarena, a Federal Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Agency, was murdered by narco henchmen at the behest of the Attorney General of Mexico
1986 the U.S. Congress enacted 5, 10 and 20-year mandatory minimum prison sentences for importing drugs
1988 the Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act (CDTA) gave DEA the authority to regulate chemicals and industrial machinery used in processing cocaine
1988 to 2017 Price of Cocaine Decreases 80% -1988 $300 per gram / 2017 $60 per gram
2017 Drug overdose deaths kill over 60,000 people in the U.S. More than four times the rate of gun homicides.
2017 U.S. has the largest prison population by percent with 1 in 100 people in prison or on probation, half of them for drug crimes, 2.2 million people in prison or jail
2017 War on Drugs Annual Cost -$51 Billion
Thank you for reading my book.
As they say in Narcotics Anonymous, to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result is indeed, Insanity.
A.L. DeNova
December 2017
About the Author
A.L. DeNova has worked in law enforcement for over two decades protecting the Southwest Border between the United States and Mexico. A.L. DeNova is a pseudonym. The experience is real.