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Laos, the world's third largest heroin producer only 10 years ago, has declared itself free of opium poppies after a six-year campaign against the raw material used to make the narcotic.
This is all well and good, but with no viable alternative crops many former opium farmers are now finding work at the many methamphetamine labs that are springing up in their place.
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