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Losing marijuana business, Mexican cartels push heroin and meth
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In response to falling U.S. demand for Mexican marijuana, drug cartels have switched to pushing heroin made from poppies such as these seen December 2011 in Sierra de Culiacan, in northwestern Mexico’s Sinaloa state. (REUTERS)
By Nick Miroff January 11 at 9:33 PM
SAN YSIDRO, Calif. — Mexican traffickers are sending a flood of cheap heroin and methamphetamine across the U.S. border, the latest drug seizure statistics show, in a new sign that America’s marijuana decriminalization trend is upending the North American narcotics trade.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...0b8_story.html
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In response to falling U.S. demand for Mexican marijuana, drug cartels have switched to pushing heroin made from poppies such as these seen December 2011 in Sierra de Culiacan, in northwestern Mexico’s Sinaloa state. (REUTERS)
By Nick Miroff January 11 at 9:33 PM
SAN YSIDRO, Calif. — Mexican traffickers are sending a flood of cheap heroin and methamphetamine across the U.S. border, the latest drug seizure statistics show, in a new sign that America’s marijuana decriminalization trend is upending the North American narcotics trade.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...0b8_story.html