Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when a rival drug, cocaine, rose to new prominence. With heroin falling out of fashion, the number of hardcore American users has dropped from a peak of 700,000 a decade ago to 500,000 today. The slippage in this key market coincided with a 1979 drought in the Golden Triangle, the mountainous region where Burma, Thailand and Laos meet. The area has long produced much of the world's supply of poppies, from which opium and heroin are derived. The resulting rise in prices only accelerated the switch to cocaine...
Meanwhile, poppy growers in the Golden Crescent, which cuts across Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, rushed to exploit the high prices. But when the rains returned to the Golden Triangle in 1980, bumper crops followed, and suddenly growers from Iran to Thailand were saddled with a burgeoning surplus. Prices for high-grade heroin are still falling, as Asian dealers try to undercut one another in a multimillion-dollar scramble for new users. Hong Kong's 45,000 addicts can now shoot up for about the price of a movie ticket, $3. In Malaysia, a fix costs less than...
Ironically, effective law enforcement sometimes seems to make matters worse. Thai narcotics agents ran down several top dealers in Bangkok last year, but the arrests merely prompted the owners of refineries in the Golden Triangle, which were already overloaded with stock, to market their wares independently. To attract new buyers they lowered prices and peddled their product aggressively in the south, where more than 70% of all Thai heroin users reside. The country's authorities report that they are now catching more traffickers. Nevertheless, as usual in the heroin business, more arrests also mean that pushers have...
...understand with sympathy. "On some level, I don't even know whether it's conscious or not, Michael knows that he has to stand off the demands of reality and protect himself," Jane Fonda points out. Jackson spent more than a week with Fonda on the set of On Golden Pond, talking far into the night about "acting, life, everything. Afrinight about "acting, life, everything. Africa. Issues. We talked and talked and talked. His intelligence is instinctual and emotional, like a child's. If any artist loses that childlikeness, you lose a lot of creative juice. So Michael creates around...