Loggers don't produce lumber either right?
Very different. The people growing poppies do so in order to survive. It is very simple. Poppies grow in areas that can not sustain other types of crops. Without them, these people would be dead. They already live on the extreme end of the poverty scale as is. Notice that the places that grow poppies, Afghanistan, Burma, Laos, etc.. are already the poorest countries in the world?
We could easily help them turn their lives around with a little research and help but instead you advocate killing them all with land mines. Way to go there. The ugly American lives.