The Last Harvest? From the US Fentanyl Boom to the Mexican Opium Crisis

The Last Harvest? From the US Fentanyl Boom to the Mexican Opium Crisis

For decades, farmers in the most marginalised regions of Mexico have depended for survival on the illicit cultivation of opium poppy for the US heroin market. In 2017 they could earn up to 20,000 pesos ($950–$1,050 dollars) per kilo of opium, which channelled around 19 billion pesos ($1 billion doll...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Romain Le Cour Grandmaison, Nathaniel Morris, Benjamin Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LSE Press 2019-11-01
Series:Journal of Illicit Economies and Development
Subjects:
mexico
opium
fentanyl
crop substitution
drug regulation
migration
market crises
Online Access:https://jied.lse.ac.uk/articles/45

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