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Originally Posted by mani
the irony of the situation is that opium production was at its lowest during the taleban as they enforced a policy to wipe out the opium trade in afganistan as per islam
they wud punish harshly any farmers growing opium which was then reversed once the americans and british took over.
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Absolutely! Yet another 'improvement' brought to the world couresy of GWB and TB.
Another interesting fact is that we spend more on trying to catch drug dealers and treating drug addicts than it would cost to buy teh total output of Afganistan. Now to me simple econommics means buy teh stuff to destroy it and you have paid farmers a decent wage and taken teh product off teh market, would they grow more? next year maybe.. it would give us a year to 'encourage them to grow useful crops like food for the middleeastern and African countries where people are starving