United Nations officials in Afghanistan are attempting to create a "flood of drugs" in the country intended to destroy the value of opium and force poppy farmers to switch to legal crops such as wheat. (e-Ariana)
"We want to create a flood of drugs within Afghanistan. There will be so much opium inside Afghanistan unable to go out that the price will go down."
Even without attempts to disrupt the flow of drugs out of the country, Afghanistan is doing a good job of destroying the value of its main export. Huge overproduction, which by some estimates twice outstrips world demand, has led to a steady fall in the value of opium. A kilogram is now worth less than one fifth of what it was in 2001. The slump in opium values, combined with last year's soaring worldwide price of wheat, fuelled hopes that farmers would switch crops. However, wheat has fallen by 30% since October and humanitarian handouts of imported wheat last winter also helped to keep prices in Afghanistan low.
Is this a bad time to ask what kind of effect this policy will have on the Afghan people? It's OK for the rest of the world... we just have to keep it in the country. And finally what happens if the UN is not able to keep the drugs within the country, like keeping the Taliban down? Plummeting prices. The whole endeavour is based on a twisted idea of NIMBY. We can "somehow" keep the drugs here... then it won't make it back home... It's all just wishful thinking,
Cannabis is SAFER than the United Nations stupidy.... no questions asked
"We want to create a flood of drugs within Afghanistan. There will be so much opium inside Afghanistan unable to go out that the price will go down."
Even without attempts to disrupt the flow of drugs out of the country, Afghanistan is doing a good job of destroying the value of its main export. Huge overproduction, which by some estimates twice outstrips world demand, has led to a steady fall in the value of opium. A kilogram is now worth less than one fifth of what it was in 2001. The slump in opium values, combined with last year's soaring worldwide price of wheat, fuelled hopes that farmers would switch crops. However, wheat has fallen by 30% since October and humanitarian handouts of imported wheat last winter also helped to keep prices in Afghanistan low.
Is this a bad time to ask what kind of effect this policy will have on the Afghan people? It's OK for the rest of the world... we just have to keep it in the country. And finally what happens if the UN is not able to keep the drugs within the country, like keeping the Taliban down? Plummeting prices. The whole endeavour is based on a twisted idea of NIMBY. We can "somehow" keep the drugs here... then it won't make it back home... It's all just wishful thinking,
Cannabis is SAFER than the United Nations stupidy.... no questions asked
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