Assignment Task:
Q1. What do you know about the Golden Triangle and drug trafficking? How were its environment and location contribute to its involvement in drug trafficking? What if you were a law enforcement official? Where and how would you attack the heroin/opium and drug trade?
Q2. In what ways is the drug business similar to legitimate businesses?
Q3. Discuss the economics of people who work in the drug trade, from the source to street delivery, from the people at the very beginning of the process (such as coca leaf pickers) and at the very end (street salespeople) make very little money.
Q4. How do informal financial transfers such as the chop and hawala facilitate money laundering?