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With sophisticated marketing tactics, Mexico's narcos have revamped heroin's image ...from junkies with needles...to a narcotic that can be easily snorted or smoked.
Poppy growing and heroin production is up...and close-by.
And so are sales...especially to youths in the USA.
Mexico has quietly become the world's second-largest poppy cultivator...with 7% of the world's heroin...passing Myanmar.
The USA and the UN claim Mexican poppy production has nearly tripled since 2007.
Mexico disagrees.
