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Mexico's Marijuana Farmers Switch to Heroin as US Legalisation Hit


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With marijuana prices in the US falling after the laws prohibiting the drug were relaxed in several states, impoverished Mexican farmers are turning to the cultivation of heroin poppies. In Mexico's Golden Triangle in the state of Sinaloa, which is reknown as a base for marijuana cultivation, farmer say that prices for the crop have fallen from $100 per kg five years ago to just $25 per kg. \"It ...

 

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