SHORTENING an industry's supply chain is bound to affect the activities of existing suppliers. That is as true of the recreational-drugs industry as it is of any other. Some street pharmaceuticals, such as methamphetamine and cannabis, are already made near their main consumer markets--whether manufactured in laboratories or grown under cover in neighbouring countries. But others, particularly cocaine and heroin, still have to be imported from far-flung places where the plants which produce them...
SHORTENING an industry's supply chain is bound to affect the activities of existing suppliers. That is as true of the recreational-drugs industry as it is of any other. Some street pharmaceuticals, such as methamphetamine and cannabis, are already made near their main consumer markets--whether manufactured in laboratories or grown under cover in neighbouring countries. But others, particularly cocaine and heroin, still have to be imported from far-flung places where the plants which produce them...
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