U.N. - Afghan Poppy Planting On Rise

[RedOnce]

AP - KABUL, Afghanistan, March 7, 2006

Cultivation of opium poppies has increased in large areas of Afghanistan, raising fears there could be another bumper crop this year, a government and U.N. survey said.

Farmers are planting more opium poppies than last year in 13 provinces, while cultivation levels are stable in 16 provinces and have dropped in only three, the Ministry of Counternarcotics and the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said in a statement.

Afghanistan is the source of nearly 90 percent of the world's opium and heroin — even though the international community has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into fighting the trade since the hard-line Taliban regime was ousted by a U.S.-led invasion in 2001.

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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

[MadMaddie]

1. Progress by GW!!!

Finally....:sarcasm:

[Deep13]

2. Heroin availability on rise as prices fall.

Govt. asks people not to put two and two together.

[Dora]

3. CRYSTAL METH! CRYSTAL METH! CRYSTAL METH!

And this, dear readers, is where the class war and the War on Drugs intersects.

Poor people manufacture (crystal meth) or illicitly grow (marijuana) their own drugs.

Opium is the drug of the upper crust: heroin, opiates, and knock-off pharmaceuticals otherwise not available to the poor.