The free market economics of synthetic opioids (with Sam Quinones)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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What's Happening in Mexico?
There's an enormous population of people in mexico that are profiting from it. What i think you're seeing is a proliferation of producers, both fentinel and matamfetemcause they are making fentinel now in mexICO. The response at the lowerat the lower ends the levels of mexican drug production has been to make more of it. It's like a kind of constant glut economy down there right now. And so because these are folks who, who, for whom drug trafficking has been a ticket out of poverty, into or out of rural in work.
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