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Responding to the market opportunity caused by …
Years: 1978 - 1978
Responding to the market opportunity caused by the drought in Southeast Asia, heroin production in Southwest Asia suddenly expands to fill gaps in the global market.
Opium production rises there from 504 tons in 1971 to an estimated 1,400 tons in 1978.
(Source: The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade; Opium)
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Years: 1978 - 1978
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