News Forum - Myanmar’s junta growing more opium than ever

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Myanmar has been growing more opium since the 2021 coup, reversing a 6-year decline between 2014 and 2020, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has said. During the first full opium growing season since the military took power in February 2021, Myanmar saw a 33-percent increase in poppy cultivation and an 88-percent …

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Myanmar harvests opium and Thailand has marijuana. Something else for Anutin to try and get his hands on?

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19 minutes ago, Viggen840 said:

Myanmar harvests opium and Thailand has marijuana. Something else for Anutin to try and get his hands on?

I thought the police and the army already had the supply lines neatly carved up between them. Maybe a co-operative venture with their Burmese counterparts?