PHOTOS: As poppies bloom, Mexico seeks to halt heroin trade

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[Java4Jay]

In the mountains of Mexico's tropical sierra, an ever-growing expanse of pink poppy flowers has pushed prices so low for opium paste, the gummy raw ingredient of heroin, that farmer Santiago Sanchez worries about how he will feed and clothe his family.

[Java4Jay]

A trend toward mixing the synthetic opiate fentanyl in Mexico's tarry black heroin, has slashed what criminal gangs pay farmers like Sanchez for a kilo of opium. Now, Sanchez earns about $260 per kilo, a fifth of the average price two years ago.

[ronnie raygun]

If you were selling horse shoes today you would be out of business. Supply and demand. There are users and there are investors including many in our political class. Open borders is about money, the free movement of drugs

[rawcatslyentist]

Poppies bloom in the summer.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Anyone else remember when GWB had the opportunity to eradicate the poppy fields in Afghanistan but didn’t?

[OrangeHoof]

Am I supposed to feel sorry for him?

[moovova]

“We can’t keep living like this,” said Sanchez, who is a local leader in the remote Mixtec Indian village of Juquila Yucucani, where hundreds of poppy farmers have seen already-meager incomes shrivel. “We can barely afford our food.”

What? Your heartstrings aren’t plucked?

[VietVet876]

Hey Sanchez, eat your opium. Don’t worry. Be happy.

[bert]

Mexican heroin is not nearly as pure as Ozark Heroin and commands a cheaper price

[Dick Vomer]

Wow another fake story about “Mexico fighting drugs”.

THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO SAID THE GOVERNMENT WASN’T FIGHTING THE DRUG WAR AND THAT IT’S OVER!!

It’s over for Mexico. We have a socialist narco-terrorist country on our southern border and NOBODY is talking about Mexico being by definition a “failed state”. We are screwed and about to witness a civil war that will crush the border states.

The last time there was a civil war in Mexico anywhere from 1-5% or the population left the country and crossed the border. I know, because after the last Mexican revolution and Cristero war, my grandfather came to this country and became an American citizen.

[Vaquero]

Poppies bloom in the summer.

In parts of Mexico it’s always summer (temperature wise)

[servantboy777]

Besides the cartels, the U.S. Gubbamint has the largest stockpile of opium/morphine in the world distributed throughout the states and kept in military vaults such as Fort Knox.

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930916&slug=1721425

[Openurmind]

That’s a fact. Couple growing seasons a year. Just like the Ca central valley.

[Ransomed]

Using fentanyl and carfentanil lowers their exposure, allowing smaller poppy fields, less poppy harvesters. Also, when a user uses heroin laced with the synthetic opioids un laced heroin becomes substandard, and supposedly they must go back to the source with the laced heroin.

Freegards

[GailA]

I do, and don’t forget NAFTA. Obama just continued it and made it worse.

[null and void]

Anyone else remember when GWB had the opportunity to eradicate the poppy fields in Afghanistan but didn’t?

I don't remember him not eradicating them.

I do remember US troops being ordered to guard the fields under his watch.

[gaijin]

Meet the original billionaire inventer of opiods, the SACKLER FAMILY..!

Now let's take look at opioid deaths in the USA over time:

Wow, that's a lot. I wonder what might help to account for that amazing growth:

Shameful, huh..? In view of such evil ambition, I wonder how profitable opiods are, huh..? The Sackler family owns an incredible 1/3 of the entire legal opiods market and they route all of their profits through Bermuda, where they own a non-descript office building.

I wonder HOW rich you can get...

But that's just ONE of their many houses.

This one goes for $32 million dollars and it's in Bel Air, next to Beverly Hills.

After HOOKING people, you probably won't believe that they were also recently granted a patent for a drug to get people UN-hooked, would you..?

Yes, paid to hook people, then paid to UN-hook them. Nice biz, huh...?

Nice medal, maybe he planted a flag on Mount Suribachi, right...?

Uh-huh, sure...!

If you weren't in the military, could you wear a serious look on your face while you walked around with a MEDAL on your suit jacket..?

That takes real brass.

[gaijin]

We are dying at THEIR hand, yet I am giving to believe I’m supposed to PITY them...?

Imagine me spitting in your face, then demanding an apology:

It doesn’t compute, yet that is what this is.

Why does The West travel around the world, begging to be told what we’ve done wrong..?

Our thirsts is to BE blamed, while the non-west (Africa & Middle East, foremost) harbors resentment for illusory crimes.

West vs. Non West is akin to the unsteady relationship between an alcholic and a bottle collector:

The relationship in some sense does WORK, but it is HEALTHY..?

It’s unhealthy for BOTH sides.

[Dana1960]

The further south you are, the more growing you get to do.

I get two growing seasons for tomatoes, etc. April and September.

It’s nice.

[eyeamok]

WHy would they rip out the Blooming Flowers?? Once the flower opens it is TOO LATE the Opium is GONE!! You must harvest the opium BEFORE the flowers open.

[Openurmind]

Sure is. :)