Cannabis Economics - Marijuana production in Afghanistan, Helmand

[AMAZINGdancingBEARS]

If the uk/usa had the space and the correct environment to produce cannabis for world wide export, the governments would have been selling it for a long time, the fact is afghanistan, morocco, thailand, india, africa can produce it for very little cost and these original production countrys would become the richest in the world and uk/usa governments dont want that so they make a war against it, just like they do with everything they cant control. Bastards.

[AMAZINGdancingBEARS]

If cannabis was fully legalised countrys like this would suddenly be making lotts of cash and there economys would soon rival the uk and usa, and that is why it will never be fully legalised. Its a shame cos it could help alot of other countrys economys aswel.

[kyrupt]

That reporter is retarted if she thinks that they would ever replace those crops from there our governents funds fucking wars from drugs they will never stop the drur trade cause they make tons of money off it

[116skinnyboy]

@hydropropop hashish is what the afghans call it also, when i was in kandahar the ANA always smoked it and only said, "hashish verdy gewd"

[yoss1978]

A very serious lack of facts, with heavy propoganda bias in this report. Grats CNN, i watch one of your reports, and will never be able to take you seriously again.

[bigboy4evaa]

does anyone know the prices for marijuana if Afghanistan?

[KenyanBoyBiggz]

@bigboy4evaa A pound for 4 dollars and 23 cents. give or take a few cents. :)

[116skinnyboy]

@bigboy4evaa dirt cheap, it grows everywhere, hell i had pot plants growing out of our walls in our base, truck loads of it was seen all the time, and when i raided a house they had 17 garbage bags full of bud 2 supply them through the winter

[weedyak]

all that bud

[saso2202]

aa stfu and smoke one

[eastern2western]

dude, if you do not let them grow drugs, they could pick up guns and join the taliban and shoot the soldiers.

[bishopdante]

100 years ago there were big, beautiful fields of it everywhere. It was great! It was a legal, natural crop, very high quality paper and cloth is made from hemp. Food.

[Sygorg]

"... the addict that are suffering because of the drug ..." ; that's a good one. what a load of bullcrap, if marijuana would be legal ... there would be TOO many products made from it and many of the capitalistic pigs would loose their fat to nature ... it is all about control and money that they make selling us artificial/chemical medicine

and the "reportress" is really in the void when it comes to grass and hashish

[elrojo1848]

YUM DRUGS

[mawsterin]

hashis?? jajaja you cant understadn tha ART of Make hashis. Totaly Ignorant this fucking society.

THis a Cnn Reporter, omy god... IGNORANCE

[NickDanielCorcoran]

i dont think this woman actually knows the definition of hashish

[Juxtapose9]

"It is very hard to stop poppy growth in Afghanistan... Your never gonna be able to stop the drugs in Afghanistan..." So with all your technology and the greatest war machine in the history of humanity your telling me the American army cant do what the Taliban did in 2002. They can stop it but for corrupt economic reasons they won't.

[colmcb311]

why isn't it a concern that these guys DON'T make decent wages? all over the world, third world countries are filled with people that have to farm coca, marijuana, poppies, and all kinds of things and work for next to nothing. America is so close to doing its job and liberating people from this slavery, but are somehow unable to make the jump to getting anything really done!

[santamuertetuesday]

stupid hoe, you want to them to get high on Advil or Tylenol just like in america

[thedudefromthehood]

lol hashish grows naturally anywhere, you don't plant it. Its like raspberries

[tigerone1970]

Hi TPVALLEY,

I take it you're Brit? Nothing wrong with that, however:

1) 'Skunk' is just a British street slang for whatever good weed comes along. There is a real strain called Skunk #1 (Afghani, Acapulco Gold, Oachacan), but it has been inbread into Dutch weed since 1978 and contains CBD.

2) There is no link between real psychosis and even weed without CBD (which is rare - Tanzanian Magic, Zambian Copper from African Seeds).

[tigerone1970]

3) There have always been strains that are 100% CBD - Afghani and other indicas.

Indica and Sativa have evolved in different light conditions. Usually they're associated with latitude (indicas are subtropical (North Africa, Middle East) , sativas tropical Central Africa, Amazon, Southeast Asia) or altitude - you can have sativas growing in humid valleys, move up a mountain and find indicas.

[tpvalley]

"cant take it away just YET"

who do american think they are?

its part of their culture, they have a right to consume and grow it just like we should have.

[ahovda10]

mmm Afghan hashish is the best hashish. Naturally growed as it is meant to be growed - and the high is spiritual

[neokanzler]

u cant plant hashish and u dont get addicted to marijuana. Back to school!

[original1423]

2:25 Somebody get that frog outta my weed!

[hysteriahpc]

That herb is shit. I can grow better herb in my closet.

[tpvalley]

@hysteriahpc

u could grow plants with a higher %thc but the buzz would not be as good.

plants grown like this have thc and cbd to balance it out.

Have u smoked afgan before? its very nice.

[tigerone1970]

Hash or hashish is the resin that contains THC, and is separated from the rest of the plant by agitation, rubbing, or freezing water.

These plants are used for making hashish. You could make much better quality at home, growing perfect buds and using something like the Ice-o-lator.

However, this is on a commercial scale. And I agree with the comment about not drying weed anywhere near sunlight.

[tpvalley]

@tigerone1970 UV rays make THC decompose into cbd, without cbd u get "the fear", a kind of anxious buzz, but if u have cbd it feels way better to me, stuff grown under the sun like this always feels better somehow compared to hydro grown stuff.

CBD is an anti phsycotic evidently, in labs plants r being trained to make all cbd and no thc for mental patiant treatment, the opposite to the way skunks have been bred.

[magicraker]

Those guys obviously have no idea wtf they're doing. they let the plants dry out on there own in the sun, that gets rid of like 50% of the thc. your supposed to look at the buds up close with something like a microscope and at the first sign of seeing the resins turning brown, it's time to harvest. then hang the plants upside down in a dark dry room.

[murderface74]

This lady called those plants hashish, and she said if you stop the poppy growth in one province it shoots up to 200% the next season. It takes cultivation... that should make you think.

[SoulMusicians]

That Indica bud looks beautiful 1:50 to 1:53 wish I was near them plants:(

[MEGAAHMED]

this is we can call one love

federal sucks !!!

i have alot afghani weed and i am proud !!! THC best thing cannabis best herb and medicine

i live in karachi and smoke this shit daily!

[Peter421]

lol WOW! super wack weed. Looks like bundles of hay

[CrankDATdance56]

@Peter421 Its cos they dry it out in the sun and its used to make hash

[5tonyvvvv]

the military has become government  paid puppets..Cannabis is the safest most non toxic plant on earth!!!!

[Eleeon]

That bud looks like absolute shit.

[hannaheesaa]

@Eleeon that hashish there a diffrenices shows u now bout ur cannabis

[balf1111117373]

they dont mention who the owner of the field is tho.......................hhhm­mmm i wonder if the u.s. owns it

[4jai2brons0n]

Why would we want to take away the marijuana cultivation? We should be encouraging it instead of poppy growth and hope for some discounts.

[Petrolianzoolbar]

Wow, this reporter is clueless... First she starts telling us about opium because she's walking to a weed field, then she starts thinking they manage to grow both poppy's and weed on one field, then she starts telling us the weed plants are hashish, then she says the hippy trail was somehow a drug smuggling trail.. She just makes it all up as she goes along...

[bugmyass]

support afghan peoples smoke black hash!

gold seal FTW

[K0ng2010]

I support legalization of Marijuana in Afghanistan. Reporter is very ignorant.

[K0ng2010]

I support legalization of Marijuana in Afghanistan.

[tompants2010]

Shes such an idiot, she thinks hashish is a plant! I'm so sick of reporters that don't even know the facts about what they are reporting on. Also those cannabis plants looked like shit i wouldn't touch that bud with a long pole. This whole theory that farmers could switch from poppy production to cannabis production is bullshit, they've been growing poppies for centuries and they aren't gonna stop anytime soon! Theres just something deeply wrong with trying to eradicate plants!

[infinitehumanstupid]

She's so ignorant =D!!! =D

[EvilPanzer]

DAMN look at that truck load!! Guess even the Afghans need shwag..

[pinkpresto]

i dont see why poppies are bad. they are used to make morphine and other pain medicines that the middle east lack. Amputations are done without any pain relievers.

[MrDionysos23]

i would like to crop up this year like this ,too

[verynice420]

is that why were here for?

[Rapquake]

Americans looking down on people for growing cannabis??!! The ignorance and head-up-ur-own-assedness is disgusting!!!

[rich2rock]

I knew this war was about oil, but I didn't think hemp oil? WTF? ha ha! So, that's what they're up to over there. Hmmmmm.

[ALITL8]

Opium poppy that's probably used for the production of Morphine, Codeine and other pharmaceutical pain medicines. Coca has other "accepted" medical uses and Cannabis has industrial, medicinal, nutritional and "safer" recreational uses.

End the War on Farmers! Legalize ALL "drugs" and regulate based on their actual dangers to society. Marijuana for instance, fits somewhere between tomatoes and aspirin ;o)

[123backinyerface]

@ALITL8 lol Well said ! I had an almost identical post wrote until I saw yours, couldn't have said it better myself.

Tomatoes and Aspirin.... XD

[scrappyrusski]

what a bush... no wonder they make hashish out of it

[slade420]

legalize drugs, bankrupt the drug mafia, grow marijuana and hemp, for food fuel fiber medicine!!! replace opium with cannabis!

[bootytasha]

@slade420 agreed!

[paolo392]

The hemp is forbidden in west. A wrong choice, with consequences all over the world.

[zreticoli]

viva la maria

fanculo gli americani

[MoNdiS0mMerSi]

OPIUM and OIL

This is the real reason of American invasion. STUPID AMERICAN ZIONISTS

[paolo392]

I have put the comment

[bgoodeh]

Dumb bitch hasn't a bloody clue about what she speaks of.

[MoNdiS0mMerSi]

Dumb bitch as you!!!

[Sombomombo]

so...we were on a stand still against a load of high hostiles? WTF man?! Hell those of you out there who've been there done that know what people are like what they're high! No exuse for holdups anymore!

[islamsuxs]

We need pot fields just like that here in Our Great Nation ! doughboy

[MWCstream]

Nice Video, I found this great site online with some awesome glass bongs and pipes you can check it out at everypipe (.) com

[mesbest]

who are we to tell them what to grow? its like them coming to the west and stopping beer production. its the millionaire drug lords and the trafficers that we should be stopping, not these poor farmers that are just trying to scratch a living to feed their families

[anarchiberty]

@mesbest True, but also, if it weren't illegal there would be no millionaire drug-lords and thus all the violence that comes with it.

Maffia and related crimes only exist because of prohibition.

[eeemaster]

Because the North American Governments and the EU want to police the world. What the leaders fail to realize is that stopping these "problems" in other countries does nothing to help resolve those they have in their own.

[eeemaster]

U can't plant hashsih u dumb twat. I see reporters no longer do something called fact checking. I guess that's why there is so many of them out there, called bloggers.

[islamsuxs]

@eeemaster Thats CNN for you, dumbest commies on this earth ! doughboy

[Sombomombo]

What do you watch Fox?

I mean BBC is exelent. But Fox is just a bunch of ADHD scitsofranics who overreact over everything.

Again, CNN and BBC are fine, but please tell me you ain't watchin fox!

[ontariobuds]

@eeemaster no investigative journalism either.

[wilosism]

@eeemaster well in Afghanistan they call the Afghan indica plants hashish and the poppy plants opium. you will always hear the Afghan farmers say they grow the hashish, and plant opium. she actually seems to be more informed than most people. yo

[CannabisPhilosopher]

@wilosism

All it means is the afghans don't know what they are talking about.

The ENDPRODUCT they make of the cannabisplant is called hash(ish), but the plant is surely not.

[PonchoLopez]

@eeemaster The Locales call it hashish you twat. Hence why she did *after* she talked to a farmer.

[Temple420org]

US protecting cannabis fields with tax dollars

[paolo392]

AND VERY TRUE!

[walkertexasranger33]

@Temple420org theyre protecting the farmers way of life.. because it sells more than regular grain.. thats why they aint allowed to burn them or stomp it out.. especially if they want the afghan people to prosper and get the nato support

[walkertexasranger33]

@Temple420org let me rephrase.. they are not protecting they are just not touching it

[kadmiri420]

@Temple420org tax money well spent...