No Blowing Smoke: Poppies Fade in Southeast Asia

[PeteC]

From the New York Times. Pete
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In Myanmar, a guard stands next to drugs set ablaze by authorities.

But the reality is that after years of producing the lion’s share of the world’s opium, the Golden Triangle is now only a bit player in the global heroin trade.

“The mystique may remain, and the geography will be celebrated in the future by novelists,â€

[johnnyk]

Nice token gesture by the regime.
I doubt very much the colonels would willingly give up their most lucrative product.