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Mexican Cartel Sponsors Chemical Degrees to Promote Fentanyl Production

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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report from U.S. intelligence, Mexican cartels have begun sponsoring chemistry degrees for some of their members in an effort to expand fentanyl production, attempting to keep up with the high demand for the drug – which has now supposedly passed both heroin and cocaine in recreational use. The intel likewise revealed that these

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UN: Methamphetamine Use Skyrockets in Mexico

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By MARK LORENZANA Drug treatments in Mexico for methamphetamine use have already outnumbered those for alcohol, showing a sharp rise of the synthetic drug throughout the country, warned the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). In its World Drug Report 2022, which was presented at the international level on Monday, June 27, the agency revealed that the use

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