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Opium cultivation rise by 59% in Afghanistan

rockwool

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http://www.afgha.com/?q=node/1491

Opium, heroin and marijuana production remain integral to Afghanistan’s economy. Some 2.9 million people are involved in growing opium, representing 12.6 percent of the total population. Revenue from this year's harvest is predicted to top US $3 billion, according to UNODC figures.
“This is a long-term problem which fuels corruption, finances insurgency and undermines law and order. Solving it cannot be done by military means alone, but dealing with it is essential,” Mark Laity, a spokesman of NATO, told IRIN in Kabul.
Strange that it continues to rise as the country now has incomes never seen during the Talibans who had a done a good thing fighting it, as the Opium cultivation was at its lowest during their last years of rule.
 

valve bouncer

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Strange that it continues to rise as the country now has incomes never seen during the Talibans who had a done a good thing fighting it, as the Opium cultivation was at its lowest during their last years of rule.
Kite flying was also at historically low levels. Stupid kites.
 

valve bouncer

Master Dildoist
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Read up, kite flying was banned under the Taliban.
The Afghan govt/Nato are on a hiding to nothing here. Opium is a cash crop in a region with not that much else going on. Get the opium and you risk a lot of poor pissed of families joining the Taliban. Tolerate the opium and concentrate on beating the Tliban, sort out poppies later when junkies are dying by the dozens every day in the cities of Europe.
 

BurlyShirley

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Read up, kite flying was banned under the Taliban.
The Afghan govt/Nato are on a hiding to nothing here. Opium is a cash crop in a region with not that much else going on. Get the opium and you risk a lot of poor pissed of families joining the Taliban. Tolerate the opium and concentrate on beating the Tliban, sort out poppies later when junkies are dying by the dozens every day in the cities of Europe.
Also, the opium is slowing down China's imminent world domination. :cheers:
 

Westy

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This is bad. Drugs should only be sold by big corporations so we know they are safe, like Vioxx and Fen Phen.
 

Slugman

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I remmeber about 10 years ago that the largest poppy (the plant that opium comes from) fields in the world are run by.... Johnson&Johsnon (yes the medical company). Not sure if that is still the case.

They use it to make morphine.

Too bad the profit margin isn't higher for the legit uses...
 

rockwool

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Read up, kite flying was banned under the Taliban.
The Afghan govt/Nato are on a hiding to nothing here. Opium is a cash crop in a region with not that much else going on. Get the opium and you risk a lot of poor pissed of families joining the Taliban. Tolerate the opium and concentrate on beating the Tliban, sort out poppies later when junkies are dying by the dozens every day in the cities of Europe.
Wicked!
That is one cynical tactic to win that "war". Unfortunatly that means a lot of people are left to die because of it, and that is while losing your presidents other war... The war on drugs.

The Afghan govt and NATO might not be into it, but there's one agency that's been moving that product for years. I know you're not surprised to hear me say that :) but there's a lot pointing to it. A LOT. Buying of politicians in banana republics around the world and creating conflicts by smuggling in weapons where needed is not done with your tax money.
 

Secret Squirrel

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Wicked!
That is one cynical tactic to win that "war". Unfortunatly that means a lot of people are left to die because of it, and that is while losing your presidents other war... The war on drugs.

The Afghan govt and NATO might not be into it, but there's one agency that's been moving that product for years. I know you're not surprised to hear me say that :) but there's a lot pointing to it. A LOT. Buying of politicians in banana republics around the world and creating conflicts by smuggling in weapons where needed is not done with your tax money.
The drug czar of the good 'ol USA is about as impotent as Bob Dole was before Viagra......

There will always be a market for "illegal" drugs....and if people die, well, good for the globe. A few less intelligent people than the rest of us... Gattaca!! Gattaca!!! Gattaca!!!
 

rockwool

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This is bad. Drugs should only be sold by big corporations so we know they are safe, like Vioxx and Fen Phen.
That reminds me of a stand up comedy with Dennis Leary. It was a real energetic scene (wouldn't be Leary without it..) where he was talking about his good good times on meth and other stuff when he assured everybody he was clean, no illegit drugs for years, then he went on telling them he didn't need to since there were excelent prescription drugs he used legaly and started counting them up...
 

rockwool

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The drug czar of the good 'ol USA is about as impotent as Bob Dole was before Viagra......

There will always be a market for "illegal" drugs....and if people die, well, good for the globe. A few less intelligent people than the rest of us... Gattaca!! Gattaca!!! Gattaca!!!
The movie? Haven't seen it.
 

LordOpie

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two things...

1. Don't be jealous that the CIA is far better at managing opium production than anyone else on the planet.

B. The USA promised to improve their economy.
 

H8R

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It's good to see that they have a strong agriculture based economy.

:thumb:


If anyone has a problem with this, it's simply a matter of cutting off the demand: stop US bagel makers from putting poppy seeds on bagels.
 

Changleen

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I used to like to rub a little opium on a piece of KB before firing it up, but since all this terrorist crap went down, I have decided to do my part and abstain. :biggrin:
Just get it from Johnson and Johnson. Then you can get baked AND help capitalism.