Asian heroin makes for good movies, but the vast majority of the heroin used in the U.S. comes from Mexico and now Columbia.
You’re not ruling out the stuff coming from the Middle East, right? You’re saying that it’s the Mexican and Columbian connections that are dominant, right? If so, what estimate would you give as to how much of the total is traffic coming from the Middle East, especially from regions where there is Islamic jihad and fatwa against the “Great Satan” (us)?
I have read that back in the 1880s there was an attempt to get Kansas Farmers to grow opium. It failed because it is so labor intensive, having to cut and collect the pod juice.