An Afghan success story.

[Hard-Luck Henry]

Cultivation of opium poppy reached unprecedented level of 206,700 hectares in 2004; counterdrug efforts largely unsuccessful; potential opium production of 4,950 metric tons; potential heroin production of 582 metric tons if all opium was processed; source of hashish; many narcotics-processing labs throughout the country; drug trade source of instability and some antigovernment groups profit from the trade; 80-90% of the heroin consumed in Europe comes from Afghan opium; vulnerable to narcotics money laundering through informal financial networks

 

[mrmom2]

There a surprise .The thieves are in the drug biz too :roll:

 

[PoisonPete2]

It's good to see that Afghanistan is on the mend after those evil Tailaban destroyed the crops. What worries me is that now Canadian troops are going to be more exposed to the Opiates. Huge numbers of U.S. troops returned from Viet Nam with heroin addiction, a bi-product of CIA smuggling operations for the Montinyar. Then the government ended funding for clinics in 1973, leaving thousands of addicted vets without support. Thank god for the likes of mayor Campbell in Vancouver.