The Power of Heroin
by Afghanistan is the world’s largest opium producer. It alone accounted for 87% of world opium production in 2005.
Opiumvalmo grows in 28 of the country’s 34 provinces. According to the UN body against crime and drugs is 10 percent of the Afghan people involved in cultivation. They are indebted and forced to cultivate opium poppy to have a chance to feed their families.
Drugs are the main income source in the Afghan economy. Approximately 2.8 billion dollars annually (about 60% of GDP) is expected from the drug. Farmers’ share of the cake, however, is modest. A poor and corrupt judiciary and the limited resources of an equally corrupt police force has the potential to prosecute those who break the law almost non-existent, whether it is opium-growing farmers and smugglers.
Those who have laboratories for the processing of poppy for heroin, the warlords or drug barons who monitor and protect trade.
It is no exaggeration to say that drugs pose a real threat to the fragile Afghan democracy. The large illegal income from drugs generates corruption and dependent on conditions that undermine the central government power, influence and confidence.
Many cry out warnings that Afghanistan is becoming a “narco-state” – a state where the drug mafia is fully integrated with the State. There is considerable risk that the same people who control the drugs are controlling the city administration.
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Post Commentclafleur
On June 15, 2009 at 12:25 am
Good story. What are they suppose to do but grow poppy. Its not like they can grow corn there.
WorldCrusaider
On June 15, 2009 at 4:47 am
The dominant crop is wheat, maize, rice, barley and potatoes. Even fruit is of great importance, including for export. Cotton is grown for the domestic textile industry and for export. Forest is estimated to cover about 3% of Afghanistan’s surface and is concentrated in the eastern part and in the mountainous Hindu southern slope.
dmccusker11
On June 15, 2009 at 3:27 pm
interesting write..thanks for sharing
Sir Poetry
On June 16, 2009 at 11:35 pm
My dads last wife was a heroin addict. She left my two bro’s for it. Good article.
tu puta madre
On June 22, 2009 at 1:52 pm
gilipoyas aki no ai nada de explicacion de nigun explosivo tus muertos.