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July 20, 2023 – According to Sedena, the use of synthetic drugs has increased compared to traditional drugs (Photo: AP / Jae C. Hong)
In area drugs spreading There are two main classes of drugs: traditional And synthetic. According to the Mexican authorities’ warning, one of these groups has a greater potential for addiction, in addition to severe physical and psychological consequences for its users.
Traditional drugs are mostly opium And drug, whose cultivation intensified in the 1960s in the north of the country, for example, in Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango. Since 1980, the rise cocaine worldwide, which is made from the leaves of the coca plant, which grows in South America.
Also included in this category heroinobtained from poppy crops growing in Sinaloa, Durango and Guerrero. reports Minister of National Defense (Sedena).
It was from the six-year term of Felipe Calderón (2006–2012) that Sedena discovered an increase in the number of clandestine laboratories producing synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine– at the same time, there was a decrease in marijuana crops, due to the legalization of its consumption in some subjects of the United States (USA).
