Synthetic Drugs Displace Marijuana [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

By Ivan 4/08/2022 09:45:00 AM

With some changes, peasants in the Sierra de Sinaloa continue to produce poppy and marijuana, although not in the quantities that were produced in previous years, but in a more measured way due to the presence of the army, and because in rural areas of Badiraguato, Cósala, San Ignacio and Choix, since there is no economic development, what remains for the peasant is to plant poppies to survive.

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Ioan Grillo, security analyst and author of research related to security and drug trafficking, considered that the market has moved more towards the production of synthetic drugs, because it is more profitable for the big bosses to produce methamphetamine or fentanyl, than drugs. that are based on plants such as poppies and marijuana.

“I have been investigating this issue for months, and it is clear that the cartels are moving more synthetic than traditional drugs, and it can be seen in the amount of methamphetamine and fentanyl that they seize at the borders, compared to traditional drugs such as marijuana and cocaine, or even traditional heroin is no longer the same, and everything seems to indicate that the market is going in that direction,” said Grillo, author of books such as El narco y caudillos del crime.

From June 2020 to June 2021, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reported 104,000 overdose deaths in the United States, almost three times more than the murders reported in Mexico in that same period, which confirms that the problem affects both countries.

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