Sentences with phrase «opium paste»

The Sinaloa cartel farms out most production of opium paste to smaller traffickers, according to growers, law enforcement and drug - trafficking experts interviewed by the AP.

Mexican authorities destroyed almost 30,000 acres of poppies in the first half of 2015, after seizing 570 pounds of opium paste in 2014, a 42 % increase over 2013 (though, as Hope notes, «seizures declined close to 90 %» in 2013).