Big Sky High

“It boiled down to money. He could make so much more profit from drugs he sold here than in any other place.” What do downtown San Francisco and rural Montana have in common? Fentanyl. Mexican drug cartels are targeting America’s ‘last best place.’ “Cracking down on the drug trade is especially challenging in a state as vast as Montana where law enforcement struggles to police the wide-open spaces and Indian reservations rely on under-funded and short-staffed tribal police forces. On at least one reservation, tribe members formed a vigilante group in a desperate bid to fight drug-related crime.”