You are the Chief Executive of World Wide (Illegal) Drugs Inc. Chart the growth of your business over the past twenty years and outline a strategy for its continuing prosperity over the next twenty years.

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        You are the Chief Executive of World Wide (Illegal) Drugs Inc. Chart the growth of your business over the past twenty years and outline a strategy for its continuing prosperity over the next twenty years. Why have the authorities found it difficult to close you down and will they pose a bigger threat to you in the future?

        I am a very respected man in my surroundings. People know me, and consider it a privilege knowing me. I never thought that this would happen to me, I didn’t have an easy childhood but I fought hard and now am a very rich and powerful man. To win in our society, I had to pass though an illegal passageway, and that passageway for me was illegal drugs. Ask me why and I’ll answer you that the law of business says that wherever there is demand there must be supply, and it is the supplier that will win especially when demand grows. I became the supplier, and I won. I am now the Chief Executive of World Wide Illegal Drugs Inc. My plan is to continue with the business that I’ve set up; money for me is no longer an issue, I want to provide money for the generations to come in my family, I never want them to endure what I have endured in the past. They shall be born rich and shall die rich. You can talk about illegality and stealing peoples lives because of my drugs, but in our society either you’re born lucky and live a good life, or you’re born unlucky and have to do whatever possible to get out of that life. Society decides in which category you shall be placed. I shall tell you my story, showing how my business increased over the past twenty years and how I shall help it increase even more in the future.

        My name is Joe Wood but in the business they call me Senor Jose. I was born in 1960 in the slums of San Diego, and lived there with my mother and three sisters. As you can probably gather from my name I am an American, but I learnt Spanish very quickly both as a result of living with mostly Hispanics and from school, it was the only subject in which I was interested. From a very young age I was surrounded by drugs; in the streets I would see the older boys deal them in broad daylight and I soon realised what kind of money was involved in this business. These kids dealt cannabis and soon were able to buy themselves a car, and along with the cars came the girls. I grew older and at the age of fifteen started dealing cannabis. It was the same year that my mother died. One year later I moved onto dealing cocaine in the streets with my best friend Carlos; at first we didn’t know where the cocaine came from but we soon learnt that it was being shipped over from Colombia.

        One day Carlos was selling in the streets and he got into an argument with an addict who pulled out a knife and stabbed Carlos eight times. This changed my dealing perception; I no longer wanted to deal small quantities in the street to aggressive druggies, I wanted business to become bigger and faster. My supplier gave me my chance by giving me larger quantities to sell off; and I managed to sell these to richer men in larger quantities. There were always businessmen who were looking for some blow for a party and these deals seemed easier and cheaper to pull off: the deals no longer happened in the streets but in houses or even at some times in offices. I started to earn quite a bit of money and I was soon employing kids to deal in the streets, I wanted to create a monopoly in my part of San Diego. Business grew as did my reputation; I had the best cocaine in the city and everybody wanted some. At the age of twenty one I lived in a nicer part of the city, but I still wanted more, I wanted a deal that would be big, something that would change my life. One day that year it happened, I received a phone call inviting me down to a business meeting in Colombia with a very important man who I shall call Juan.

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        It was Juan’s cocaine that I had been dealing in San Diego and he had soon realised that the business that I was doing was good both for me and for him. There was a big potential market on the west coast of the USA and Juan’s plan was to put me in charge of this area. The only difference would be that I would have to find a way to import the cocaine into the country because the Colombian authorities were keeping an eye on Juan. I found a way around the borders which involved a plane and a ...

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