Drug trafficking is not only a Mexican problem, but a world problem. Afghanistan is the main producer of the opium drug. It reached its record high last year by harvesting nearly $1 billion dollar’s worth of it. A senior UN believes that if the government or their allies don’t step up their efforts to stop the production it could result bad for the country by labeling it a narco-state (Graham-Harrison, 2014). Since Afghanistan is the main producer of opium it trafficks a lot of the drug out of the country to other drug traffickers. The US fears for them that their lack of effort to stop the drug trade will cause them a bad reputation among the rest of the countries. Colombia also has a similar problem like Afghanistan, except its known for the trafficking of cocaine. Unlike Afghanistan Colombia isn’t the main producer of the coca plant which is what cocaine is made from, Peru is. Colombia gets a large amount of coca plants and traffick them to Colombia and take them to the place where they make the cocaine, which they call jungle labs. Then Colombians plants their own coca plants and do the process that is needed to make cocaine and then they export the product all over the world. They are the ones that get the cocaine out into the world because of them also cultivating the coca plant. In 2012 farmers grew 118,000 acres of coca (Otis, 2013). The global drug trade doesn’t just affect the country that it is happening in. The global drug trade also has an effect on child prostitutes, HIV, money laundering, organized crime, and more gang violence (Drug Trafficking). It has an effect on all those things because they are all interconnected by the want of the drug. Since they are all interconnected with each other if we were to try and decrease drug trafficking those problems would also decrease. The same goes with if drug trafficking increases those problems also increase. If we were to reduce drug trafficking we wouldn’t just be reducing that problem but the rest of the interconnected problems as well.