Those Mexicans Will Compel You To Use Their Awesome Heroin

The LA Times is going to town on the Xalisco (north of Puerto Vallarta!) heroin dealers, in their series on the Evil Scary Super-Black-Tar Heroin, delivering an award to these dealers for Excellent Drug Business Practices. (This is part of the paper’s very dramatic MEXICO DRUG WAR extravaganza.) Our hardworking Mexican friends take phone orders; deliver by car; they are not particularly prone to violence or gun-toting; they take customer satisfaction surveys; they sell in smaller amounts; they have cut consumer prices in half; and their heroin is just better. Sounds awesome!

What does this all mean? Your mileage may vary, but it means they are creating heroin users, according to the LA Times. “Competition among the networks has reduced prices, further spreading heroin addiction.” Also: their business practices are described as “often creating demand for heroin where there was little or none.”

Does that make sense? Do people who don’t want to do heroin start doing it because it is a good bargain?

I assume that is the same sort of reasoning in which sex education makes teenagers into sluts and a lack of non-firebombed abortion clinics makes everyone kill their babies.

Meanwhile, the facts are that where these black tar heroin dealers establish themselves, the numbers of people entering drug treatment and people overdosing rise dramatically. Thing is, only one of those things is a bad thing.