Eradication or "Poppy for medicine" ?

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Senlis Council says: legalize Afghan opium production or face more support for Taliban

2007-10-10

The Senlis Council is an international policy think tank with offices in Kabul, London, Paris, Brussels, Ottawa and Rio. The Council's work encompasses foreign policy, security, development and counter-narcotics policies and aims to provide innovative analysis and proposals within these areas. The extensive programme currently underway in Afghanistan focuses on global policy development in conjunction with field research to investigate the relationships between counter-narcotics, military, and development policies and their consequences on Afghanistan's reconstruction efforts. Senlis Afghanistan has field offices in the Afghan cities of Lashkar Gah and Kandahar.

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[aeropostalbaby1]

@024reredrum um, ya they kinda do have a right you fucking idiot. where do you think afghan sells the drugs to? america. if you want to kill the problem, you cut off the head. i'm sure that asking afghan to get another customer won't work, so this is the alternative.

[laetrille]

Right on brother, they in government are fucking hippocrites, they store 2.3 million worth of morphine at Fort Knox so that shows how important opioids are.

[kguitar765]

Good I say let them Grow Poppies And America Has to Make sure it's Good Then we will buy it From The Farmers.. Also we will Protect the Farmers who Grow it. USA needs it for People in Serious Cancer Pain and Broken legs, Cronic Pain the list goes on.. But don't take unless the Docter gives it to you..

[humbertojimmy]

America (The Cancer of the World) insists in War on Drugs, causing more harm than good, turning folks with problems into criminals. And the people pays for that war with their tax money, while millions starve and don't get a penny. I guess they have to keep their police forces and politians busy, while distracting the masses from the real issues. Erradicating a living creature that was on this planet millions of years before us? On who's authority? Grow up, America. You really are pathetic.

[toneysmith48]

UNITED STATE IS INFACT ENCOURAGING AFGHANS TO GROW OPIUM RATHER THAN ANY OTHER WHEAT OR PLANT FRUIT TREES!

[SittingMooseShaman]

@toknowandgrow ...natural opiates(morphine) have a much better affinity to the human nervous-system than, 'synthetic' morphine...however, I believe these Rx manufacturing protocols effect North America & Europe more than most areas...

[toknowandgrow]

@SittingMooseShaman

they are still derived from opium no? Its not 100% synthetic? I thought it was the Opium altered in someway...I could be very wrong.

[larsjake]

Why do they ignore thebaine? Where do you think Oxycodone and Hydrocodone come from? 10,000 years and no real problem. Pharm companies want it for themselves. Now it is a problem.

[SittingMooseShaman]

...big pharma(US) use SYNTHETIC 'opiates'... sorry to burst everyones' bubble. India corners the market on legal natural medical opiates.