they are now refining it into heroin...
Posted on 11/04/2013 4:39:00 PM PST by Pan_Yan
The number of drug users in Afghanistan is estimated to be as high as 1.6 million, or about 5.3 percent of the population, among the highest rates in the world. Nationwide, 1 in 10 urban households has at least one drug user, according to a recent report from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. In the city of Herat, it is 1 in 5.
From 2005 to 2009, the use of opiates doubled, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, putting Afghanistan on par with Russia and Iran, and the number of heroin users jumped more than 140 percent. Most drug experts think the rate of drug use has increased since then.
In a country troubled by adversity, from its long-running war to rampant corruption, drug addiction ranks low among national priorities. Government funding for treatment and outreach is less than $4 million a year.
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The focus of the international community and the Afghan government has instead been on reducing opium production. Since the beginning of the war in 2001, the Americans have spent more than $6 billion to curb Afghanistan’s opium industry, including eradication and alternative crop subsidies.
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Shocking, They have Naan and Mantoo.
Pretty boring
Just wait until they discover pork products...
I say let them all get high and stay high then pull all our military out. Let the Afghans sort it out on their own. China takes it over and spends their (our) money trying to tame the place.
Afghanistan has been producing and selling opium for decades. Why is addiction NOW a problem? What’s changed?
I kinda like that plan :)
The Taliban cultivated the opium and killed any addicts. We try to kill the opium and enable the addicts.
That is what China would do and then blame the deaths on a tsunami.
they are now refining it into heroin...
Those rare earth mines... you don’t think the three Superpowers have been squabbing over poppy flowers all this time, that would be silly...
WTH are we supposed to do about it?
but,..but,..but,..everybody I talk with claims it’s impossible to legislate morality, so we just need to decriminalize ALL illegal drug use and all the gang problems will go away.....
If drugs were made legal there wouldn’t be these problems. Medical opium has a nice ring to it.
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