Cartels Targeting Mexican Millennials with ’Gourmet’ Designer Drugs Elena Toledo - PanAm Post
go to original October 13, 2017

New reports showed that cartels are targeting the millennial demographic with “gourmet” designer drugs (Flickr)

Mexican drug traffickers are looking for new ways to diversify their market, especially for its marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine and crystal meth routes into the United States. New reports showed that they are targeting the millennial demographic with “gourmet” designer drugs.

According to reports from the country’s Federal Police and Navy Secretariat, some criminal organizations have used sauces, juices, coffee, canned products and moisturizing cream, among other products, to smuggle drugs into the United States. It prevents the drugs from being detected by border agents, but also to open up a new market for those interested in drugs that are dissolved or mixed with other substances.

The ways in which the substances are transported have also evolved, as they use shampoo containers, beauty products, horns, stuffed animals, clothes, magazines, gravestones, religious images, vases and ceramic figures, among other things, to cross the border.

The largest seizures have taken place at the bus and airport terminals in Tijuana, Jalisco, Mexico City, Michoacan and Guerrero, that are presumed to be under the jurisdiction of criminal organizations such as the Jalisco Nueva Generación, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Tijuana Cartel.

Martín Iniguez, a security specialist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), said that the transfer of these illegal substances into food is gaining momentum and could create a new market specifically targeted at millennials.

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