Has the usage of Social Media affected the drug world?

As we become more and more reliant on social media, it impacts our views and what the media portrays in the drug world. Social media is seen as a way for people to communicate with friends, overseas or update what is occurring in one’s life. Social media makes social interaction faster, more convenient and easier, with a simple click of a button or a touch on a screen. With such a drastic growth in the social media world, companies have found it easier to advertise to their consumers by using ads on social media websites to promote their products. Likewise, the drug world has not fallen behind, similar to companies they have also used social media to exploit the usage and trafficking of drugs (Cawley). While this is a negative affect within drugs in social media, it has also helped capture drug lords. Social media has impacted the global issue on drugs, and has made the drug world “popular”.

I believe that although social media has a great influence in our everyday life, it has a negative impact on the drug world. For example, I do not believe that much information about local or national drug related issues are available due to the possibility of exposing information that drug lords do not want to expose. Also, there is too much issue on the drug related topic that social media would not be beneficial to use as exposure. If a country were to expose the drug issue that is occurring, the everyday life of the average citizen within the country would be affected, as well and the trade relations between neighboring or overseas countries.

In Mexico, social media has helped locate, capture, expose information and control drug lords. Authorities have now been tracking down social media websites, to watch the movement of drug lords and t...

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