Hit foreign link to heroin, Afghans ask allies

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Source: Reuters

BRUSSELS, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's allies can and must do more to combat the smuggling of chemicals used to make heroin into Afghanistan, the world's largest opium producer and exporter, the counter narcotics minister said on Wednesday.

"Let's work together against precursors," General Khodaidad told an international security conference, referring to chemicals used to turn opium into highly addictive heroin.

"Sixty-two intelligence agencies are active in Afghanistan, and we still cannot find the bad people! They are not doing their job very well," he said.

Afghanistan's poppy fields produce most of the world's opium, but Afghan officials say drug traffickers are increasingly using chemicals to convert it into heroin before it is shipped abroad, producing even greater profits for Afghan drug traffickers.

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[Tempest]

1. The UK is the biggest destination for Afghan heroin

It stands to reason the chemicals are most likely coming from that country.

[izquierdista]

2. India and China, most likely

All they need is acetic acid and cheap solvents, not something to go halfway around the world (the UK) for. You can likely buy the necessary chemicals at street markets in Pakistan and haul them in by mule.

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. People want drugs - they are gonna get them - legalize and regulate is the only way to control them

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USA has been bombing and fumigating crops for decades - it ain't gonna work

Prohibition only created a base for organized crime

same with drugs

People want it

they are gonna get it

legalize it, tax it control it

"war on drugs"

the drug lords are sitting in their mansions laughing -

"KEEP IT UP BIG GUYS"

sheet - we are so SOOOOOOOOOO stoopid . . .

[MH1]

4. ..

:thumbsup:

[ShortnFiery]

5. Yes REMOVE the allure: "legalize it, tax it, control it" n/t