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| Production, Demand for Myanmar Opium Tanks on Rise of Synthetics in SE Asia: Report |
| 2021-02-13 |
| [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 |
| #4 The synthetic opoids AFAICT are shipped to the USA courtesy of the US Postal Service. And AFAICT nothing is being done at the postal service level to interfere with this process. Is there any other info on this? |
| Posted by: Thineger Sproing6704 2021-02-13 14:59 |
| #3 they are made everywhere, shipped everywhere.Where's my grant? |
| Posted by: Chris 2021-02-13 11:59 |
| #2 The value of opium is tied to the land and those who control it. The value of the synthetics, which are so cheap that the world is awash in them, is their ability to break down societies. And where do most of the synthetics come from? Where are they shipped to? Story in that somewhere... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-02-13 09:22 |
| #1 Instead of putting all this money into studying something obvious and is not going to change, how about doing something useful. |
| Posted by: Chris 2021-02-13 03:58 |