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| Afghanistan | |
| Afghan opium output soars as cultivation hits record high | |
| 2017-11-16 | |
[AlAhram] Afghan opium producers have had a bumper year with output soaring 87 percent as the area under poppy cultivation hit a record high, the latest annual survey said Wednesday.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men... -- as it left farms in war-torn Afghanistan this year soared by 55 percent to almost $1.4 billion, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said, helping to fuel the bloody insurgency. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 The Dems are dosing. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-11-16 19:36 |
| #4 Maybe if the US narc consumption switches to carfentanyl, the Afghan suppliers will sell less. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-11-16 18:00 |
| #3 It would be good to dry up the demand but that is doubtful. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-11-16 17:28 |
| #2 International donors have spent billions of dollars on counter-narcotics efforts in Afghanistan over the past decade, including efforts to encourage farmers to switch to other cash crops such as saffron. But those efforts have shown little results. Yeah, right. If our government was serious about eradicating opium in Afghanistan we'd be using napalm, not just on the crops but on the farmers. The only reason I can imagine to squander billions of dollars on other approaches is graft, big time, world class graft. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-11-16 10:57 |
| #1 Somebody's winning this war. It just ain't me. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-11-16 10:51 |