West turns Afghanistan into first ”Narco-state”

For the third year in a row, opium cultivation has increased across Afghanistan. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/world/asia/afghanistan-opium-production-increases-for-3rd-year.html?ref=world Opium could be the country’s major economic activity after the departure of foreign military forces in 2014, raising the specter of what one referred to as “the world’s first true narco-state.” Afghanistan is already the world’s largest producer of opium, and last year had accounted for 75 percent of the world’s heroin supply.
“The assumption is it will reach again to 90 percent this year,”
Opium production has remained particularly high in southern Helmand Province, the country’s major opium-producing area, and in Kandahar Province, both places where the surge of American troops helped to beat back Taliban influence. More than a third of opium production now takes place in surge provinces. “The opium trade is a much bigger part of the economy already than narcotics ever were in Bolivia.”

2 comments

  1. ashiftinconsciousness's avatar

    Wall Street banksters and the CIA are licking their lips thinking about all of the profits they will reap from selling drugs.

    1. truthman_2012's avatar

      It happens all over the world and throughout history. Don’t forget about the opium wars of the 19th century. Recently DEA operatives stopped an ex Guinea Bissau general from trafficking in narcotics and guns. Its not the War on Drugs, its the War for Drugs. The elite have been conducting this dirty business forever.

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