With Weed Exports Down, Destitute Mexican Cartels Forced To Push Meth

Poppy plants used to make heroin are seen at a clandestine plantation during a military operation in Sierra de Culiacan in the state of SinaloaWith marijuana becoming more and more legal in the United States, there’s been an unforeseen causality – the humble Mexican drug cartel. They’re now being forced to move their businesses more into meth and heroin. Seizures of marijuana out of Mexico are down at least a third as the cartels have focused more on the hard stuff. Hey, America, won’t you please think of the average Joe Mexican weed farmer? He has a drug lord to support.

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