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THE OPIUM PLANT CAN BE GROWN THROUGHOUT MOST OP COLOMBIA. ONLY THE IMMEDIATE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC COASTAL AREAS AND THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE ANDES ARE NOT AGRONCMICALLY SUITABLE FOR PCFPY CULTIVATION. OPTIMUM CONDITIONS FOR POPPY CULTIVATION ARE FOUND ALONG THE SLOPES OF THE ANDESETERSWITH FERTILE SOIL, ADEQUATE RAINFALL, AND FAVORABLE TEMPERATURES. POPPY IN COLOMBIA CANCKN AS AN ANNUAL PLANT WITHOUR-MONTH GROWTH CYCLE, PERMITTING THREE CROPS PER YEARINGLE FIELD. WE BELIEVE THAT THE PROFITS FROMULTIVATION CYCLE ARE ALMOST CERTAINLY GREATER THAN THOSE REALIZED FROM THE PERENNIAL COCA CROP, WHICHUCH LONGERBBMMMMBMm
GROUFSOCUSED ON THE COCAINE TRADE, INCLUDING SOME
WHILE THE REASONS FOR TJilS GROWING INTEREST IN HEROIN ARE NOT YET CLEAR, WE SUSPECT THAT SOME COLOMBIAN COCAINE TRAFFICKERS ARE SEEKING TO DIVERSIFY THEIRUMBER OK TODAY'S LARGE COCAINE SMUGGLING GROUPS STARTED INY TRAFFICKING IN
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