Not far off the mark. It got so pathetic that drug mules captured coming up from South America would readily admit that they thought they were transporting cocaine as opposed to heroin...as though that would somehow lessen the whirlwind they found themselves caught up in. The lack of guile and sophistication was often near heartbreaking. Poor, desperate souls caught up in a complex game they thought might offer them an exit from lives of desperation.
Sad really. Always has been. (And made going after the higher echelon all the more pressing and (occasionally) rewarding.)