Until recently, drug addiction in Vietnam was usually associated with ethnic minorities in the highlands, who have been traditional smokers of opium and have long cultivated it as an important cash crop.

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But when the prohibition and enforcement of drug laws helps cause young men of more than one race and ethnic group to routinely destroy lives, we talk if at all about putting more cops on the street, putting more military hardware in the hands of police forces, and shutting down more pot dispensaries.

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