28 Nov 2006
Afghan drug war will take a generation to win: study

Mark this date on your calendar: by December 2026 Afghanistan will no longer be producing opium poppies. Or marijuana. After all, those plants have only been cultivated there for the last 4000 years - surely it'll only take us twenty to eradicate the trade and force the happy Afghan farmers to grow cotton instead...

And if you believe that, I daresay you've been using some popular Afghan products!

Reuters - Afghanistan will take a generation to wipe out the opium trade, which is fed by graft and the grip of a small but increasingly powerful band of drug lords with political connections, a new U.N. and World Bank report says.

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