Bill
09-08-2007, 05:52 PM
The price of heroin will soon be dropping, they just brought in a killer harvest.
"Experts say more farmers are producing poppies because they have been unable to earn a living by growing other crops like wheat and vegetables. They say that the money promised by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the international community to plant these alternative crops has not materialized.
"Not only are they back to cultivating poppy because they did not receive any alternative livelihoods, but they're angry at the broken promises, and they don't trust us anymore," said Norine MacDonald of SENLIS, an international think tank focusing on drug policy.
"You can try to kill us, but we will still grow poppy," one farmer told CNN.
Afghan poppies, which start as flowers in farmers' fields and often wind up as heroin on U.S. streets, fuel a $3 billion a year industry in Afghanistan. The industry is filling the coffers of the Taliban, the group who gave safe haven to al Qaeda before and after 9/11, and it is destabilizing the Afghan government.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/09/07/afghanistan.poppies/index.html
I remember smoking real black opium once, back in college. It was like a mouthful of flowers, one of the most amazing smells and tastes you'll ever come across.
"Experts say more farmers are producing poppies because they have been unable to earn a living by growing other crops like wheat and vegetables. They say that the money promised by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the international community to plant these alternative crops has not materialized.
"Not only are they back to cultivating poppy because they did not receive any alternative livelihoods, but they're angry at the broken promises, and they don't trust us anymore," said Norine MacDonald of SENLIS, an international think tank focusing on drug policy.
"You can try to kill us, but we will still grow poppy," one farmer told CNN.
Afghan poppies, which start as flowers in farmers' fields and often wind up as heroin on U.S. streets, fuel a $3 billion a year industry in Afghanistan. The industry is filling the coffers of the Taliban, the group who gave safe haven to al Qaeda before and after 9/11, and it is destabilizing the Afghan government.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/09/07/afghanistan.poppies/index.html
I remember smoking real black opium once, back in college. It was like a mouthful of flowers, one of the most amazing smells and tastes you'll ever come across.