he is a senior partner at the acer hutchinson law group all right gentlemen this is cross talk about names cross talk rules in effect but before let's have a look at a short report about this forty year old war. a worldwide enterprise worth some four hundred billion dollars a year illegal drug trafficking has become one of the most ferocious lucrative business in the world alongside only the oil industry and the arm straight and single largest market the u.s. is also the world's biggest consumer of cocaine heroin and marijuana shipped from colombia and mexico although the u.s. government has been hard pressed to control and curtail the nikolic stray drug related violence has spread like wildfire across latin america and especially mexico our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of. lease officers soldiers and civilians mexican officials have long been trying to draw attention to the torrent of illegal weapons flowing in from the us which conven