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Merchants of Madness: The Methamphetamine Explosion in the Golden Triangle apple_store The resulting collection offers anFor decades, Southeast Asias Golden Trianglewhere the borders of Thailand, Laos, and Burma intersecthas been infamous for its opium and heroin production. But then, in the 1990s, the drug gangs in the Golden Triangle began to produce methamphetamine, a synthetic drug that does not depend on any unreliable crop such as the opium poppy. In Thailand the drug has become known as yaba, madness drug or madness medicine. Unlike heroin, which is a downer,