Afghan Opium Output at Record High

RolandTD20Kdrummer
RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
edited August 2007 in A Moving Train
Afghanistan now accounts for 93 percent of the global production of opium, up from 70 percent in 2000, a United Nations report released on August 27 says.

"The situation is dramatic and getting worse by the day," said Antonio Maria Costa of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/photogalleries/afghanistan-pictures/
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  • somebodyelsessky2020
    somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,178
    the americans are in town business is good.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,431
    this might be the reason the afghans have not kicked us the fuck out of their country...their gov't is making too much money in the opium trade and need us to help them "secure" their country.
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  • Austicman
    Austicman Posts: 1,328
    Why can't it be traded legally for use in medicines. I don't understand why farmers are being told not to grow it and to replace their crops with something else. They'll never win that battle.
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Am I the only one that saw the humor in the title?

    Guess so.
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Opium is huge money. Not for addict on the street but for large pharmaceutical corporations.

    It's hand in hand cash and carry.

    I believe if one cares to google around...you will see some associations and family ties to big money, and the opium trade going way back.

    Maybe it's all coincidence...

    but then again...those crops could all be sprayed by air and be gone in a couple weeks/months if they wanted to...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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