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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Mexican Poppies

    Pot farmers in Mexico and Central America are turning to a new drug crop: opium poppies. They say legalization of marijuana in some U.S. states is lowering the price of pot, so they have to turn to something else. And their new crops are feeding a growing heroin problem in the U.S.

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    By Madeleine Brand • May 10, 2014 • 1 min read

    Pot farmers in Mexico and Central America are turning to a new drug crop: opium poppies. They say legalization of marijuana in some U.S. states is lowering the price of pot, so they have to turn to something else. And their new crops are feeding a growing heroin problem in the U.S.

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    Mexican Heroin, Afterlives of Musicians, and LA Theater
    1. 0:00More Ukrainian Unrest?
    2. 8:07Mexican PoppiesYou’re reading this
    3. 16:30The State of L.A. Theater
    4. 25:10The Afterlives of Musicians
    5. 40:07Cricket, Anyone?
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Andrew Walsh

      Too Beautiful to Live

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      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Nick Miroff

      staff writer, The Atlantic

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    The full episode

    2 of 5
    Mexican Heroin, Afterlives of Musicians, and LA Theater
    1. 0:00More Ukrainian Unrest?
    2. 8:07Mexican PoppiesYou’re reading this
    3. 16:30The State of L.A. Theater
    4. 25:10The Afterlives of Musicians
    5. 40:07Cricket, Anyone?
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