As a matter of fact, the inhabitants of northern Thailand know how to grow poppies, but they do not understand the art of processing them into heroin. Nor do they have distribution networks. They remain confined to selling their unrefined crop at the cheapest possible rate to drug procurers who enter the mountains to buy.
事實上，泰北山區居民會種罌粟卻不懂毒品加工技術，也沒有運銷的管道，僅能以極便宜的價錢賣給上山收購的毒梟。