Think Again: Drugs [Part 4a: Reducing Production]


	Think Again: Drugs [Part 4a: Reducing Production]

zizzy

10-18-2007 12:51 AM

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war on drugs, public policy, ideology

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10-18-2007 12:59 AM

philc56

Good to see someone out there thinks for themself!

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It’s easy to believe that eliminating record-high opium production in
Afghanistan—which today accounts for roughly 90 percent of global
supply, up from 50 percent 10 years ago—would solve everything from
heroin abuse in Europe and Asia to the resurgence of the Taliban.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3932&page=4">But assume for a moment that the United States, NATO, and Hamid
Karzai’s government were somehow able to cut opium production in
Afghanistan. Who would benefit? Only the Taliban, warlords, and other
black-market entrepreneurs whose stockpiles of opium would skyrocket in
value. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3932&page=4">many Afghans would return to their farms
the following year to plant another illegal harvest, utilizing
guerrilla farming methods to escape intensified eradication efforts.
Except now, they’d soon be competing with poor farmers elsewhere in
Central Asia, Latin America, or even Africa. This is, after all, a
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