Middle America Is Waking Up to a Mexican Cartel Heroin Nightmare Sylvia Longmire - Breitbart
go to original September 27, 2015

Farmers in the southwestern state of Guerrero are increasingly seeding fields of poppies to cash in on the boom in heroin consumption in the United States. Al Jazeera's Adam Raney speaks to Mexican farmers who have chosen to engage in the illegal business. (Al Jazeera English)

When most Americans hear the word heroin, they probably imagine a junkie underneath a highway overpass or an aging rock star with a needle sticking out of his arm. But the face of heroin abuse and addiction in America has changed dramatically in the last few years, and Mexican cartel drug traffickers are making sure those deadly little “balloons” filled with black-tar venom get into the hands of Middle America’s youth.

According to a longform report by the Washington Post, heroin has surpassed cocaine and methamphetamine to become the number one drug threat in the United States. As a result, the cartels in Mexico that produce the substance and smuggle it across the border have adjusted in quick order to the surge in demand and modified their distribution logistics accordingly.

...The form that Mexican heroin takes is evolving. The country used to be known for brown powder heroin—low in purity and thus quality. White powder heroin from Afghanistan was the gold standard in the US, and the Mexican variety, while cheaper, fell far short. Then cartels moved to the production of black tar heroin, which is much higher in quality, but takes up more volume than the powder variety. Now DEA agents are seeing that Mexican drug organizations are learning from Colombian producers how to create the highest quality white powder heroin for export to the US.

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