The Rise of Mexican Black Tar Heroin

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As the rate of opioid addiction has surged in the United States, Mexico has become the world's third-largest producer of opium used to process heroin. Mexican cartels are now the primary suppliers of the drug to the US, producing a crude and unrefined form known as black tar. VICE News travels to the fertile mountains of western Mexico, where we see the beginning of the path black tar heroin takes to the US on plantations growing poppies used to make opium. We then head across the US border to witness the human cost there of the lucrative but destructive heroin trade. Read “The Golden Age of Drug Trafficking: How Meth, Cocaine, and Heroin Move Around the World“ - http://bit.ly/21qHwag Read “Mexico Will Never Win Its War on Drugs — But It’s Going to Keep Fighting Anyway” - http://bit.ly/1VHdRdj Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News Check out VICE News for more: http://vicenews.com Follow VICE News here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicenews Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicenews Tumblr: http://vicenews.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/vicenews More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

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Not mexicans all your interviews

those are do this business their are profitable...

as an ex opiate addict it is demand that would impact the market the most

Thanks to the conscienceless pharma lobby in the US, you are slowly but steadily superseding Marihuana trafficking with Heroin and Fentalyn from Mexico it seems. Bringing even more crime and pain. And no border wall will take care of these home made problems, that's for sure.

Are you an American drug-addict junkie ?

your tongue went numb..lol..its not coke idiot that was psychosomatic response...and its doesn't drain into the can..its like a paper cut the "milk" sits along the cut..Its takes dozens of poppies to make one gram of tar..

i live in Mexico its hard overhere i havent had a good meal in three days.

let's convince opiate addicts that climate change will blow out opium within the next few years and watch them solve all of our problems.

TRUMP NEEDS TO DRAIN THE SWAMP AND EXPOSE C.I.A INVOLVMENT IN THE INTERNATIONAL DRUGS TRADE

there has to be a relentless never ceasing EXECUTION of drug smugglers dealers and suppliers and government officials involved in drug supply and misuse ..or legalise all drugs and leave it to the human race to realise the snake can kill..instantly or eventually

Fucking soldiers getting all doped out burning the shit like that, pendejos.

ese pendejo representante de mexico en la naciones unidas ni es mexicano, que pedo?

23:15 robert de niro

At 19:15 are those larger green/brown bricks hash? Or is that just really terrible weed?

Mexico is a country ruled by assassins, they need a civil war to clean up their country and stop getting lead by the U.S and stop depending on their oil.

We need to legalize all this...this drug war is pure insanity.....i know it sounds counter-intuitive but all this punitive BS doesn't work....in countries where its been decriminalized it takes the crime out of it, the addicts don't ruin their health...ugh. Alcohol is actually more destructive than opiates, good clean opiates are relatively safe ..all this black tar is adulterated poison...Thats why most junkies look so bad...

war=addiction. Civil war brought morphine addiction to the north. World 1 and 2 did the same thing. Noticed all the hooked jazz musicians after World War 2. Veitnam war brought more heroin from the golden triangle. Now since the invasion of Afghanistan the problem of heroin addiction in the United States and in Europe has increased drastically. Thats why these wars are created. Its to make money.

tante parole inutili ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ma nessuno fa mai niente ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,i soldi fanno comodo a tanti !!!!!! il campesinos non ha altra scelta qui in messico ,, come in afganistan , !!!!!

the USA absurd crack down on opiate pain medications is what is causing the heroin epidemic almost every single heroin addict in USA started with meds they need but eventually are cut off unable to get what need legally so turn to heroin the more they make meds unavailable the more heroin demand skyrockets

Kinda missed a big chunk between post harvest, to when it's at the border?
I'm sure that's not an easy feat, but so many questions are left unanswered. Where is the processing/lab 'region'? Why is it tar and not powder, etc, etc...