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Production, Demand for Myanmar Opium Tanks on Rise of Synthetics in SE Asia: Report
[BenarNews] The expansion and diversification of Southeast Asia’s synthetic drug market last year has led to a further decline in the production and demand for opium in Myanmar, although crime rings that traffic heroin continued to generate substantial profits, fueling conflict, a United Nations...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... report said Thursday. According to the report by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), titled "Myanmar Opium Survey: Cultivation, Production and Implications," a downward trend that began in 2015 continued last year, when poppy farmers saw incomes decline due to trade disruptions caused by the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-13 |
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