Mexico disputes US heroin production estimates

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico claims its opium poppy production is much lower than U.S. estimates, and says its army eradicated almost the entire crop.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration recently estimated Mexico now supplies 91 percent of heroin tested in the United States. Heroin is made by refining opium gum from poppy plants.
In early November, the DEA estimated the size of Mexican poppy plantations rose 38 percent to 44,100 hectares in 2017.
Mexico said Thursday there were only 30,6