Latin American Poppy Fields Undermine U.S. Drug Battle ...
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Jun 8, 2003 - Colombia and Mexico have become the dominant suppliers of heroin to the United States, supplanting Asia, in a trend that experts and the ...
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Opium Poppy: Production & Distrubution
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The dried opium resin is placed in bags or rolled into balls for sale. ... there are three main sources for illegal opium: Burma, Afghanistan, and Colombia. Opium
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Opium can also be grown in places like Mexico and Columbia. ... Although the Taliban has banned Opium poppy cultivation in 2001, after they were ousted outTop 10 Countries known for Producing Opium - ListCrux
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Jun 20, 2014 - The production of opium has not changed since the ancient days. ...However, at present, after Afghanistan, Columbia's drug cartels control ...Colombia Cocaine Cartel May Move Into Opium Production ...
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Jun 2, 1989 - In an apparent indication of shifting currents in the international drug trade, growers in cocaine-rich Colombia for the first time have begun to ...Is Colombia Still a Major Player in the US Heroin Market?
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Dec 2, 2013 - The US government estimates that heroin production has sharply declined in Colombia over the past decade, yet the United Nations claims the ...
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Thriving heroin culture alarms Colombian, U.S. authorities
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Aug 18, 2001 - While Colombia grows only 2 percent of the world's opium poppies, ...Estimating the size of poppy fields is more difficult than it is for coca, the ...Transforming Opium Poppies Into Heroin | FRONTLINE | PBS
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It flourishes in dry, warm climates and the vast majority of opium poppies are ...Heroin is also increasingly becoming an export from Latin America, notably Colombia.... "Most traffickers do their morphine refining close to the poppy fields, since ...
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Opium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jump to Illegal production - See also: Opium production in Afghanistan and Illegal drug trade ... (particularly Burma), Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico.
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