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Frost over the World - Opium in Afghanistan - 5 Dec 08

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Antonio Maria Costa, the director of the UN office on drugs, and Farid Popal, from the Afghan embassy in London, join the show to discuss Afghanistan's poppy trade. Plus, Roy Bennett, the treasurer of the MDC, discusses Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic.

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  • Taliban were solely responsible for the reduction of opium farms at the height of their power. You farmed opium, they killed you.

    The world powers had to invade under some premise to preserve the illegal opium trade before it became extinct. This report is lies. Numbers dont lie. Look at the opium production before the US invaded Afghanistan, it almost became extinct, and you will see the truth. Taliban were demonized and cannot defend themselves in the media.

  • they want to look for a guy in the cave but can't destroy poppies being grown in open fields.

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  • @scrubbycritter I agree that some problems will decrease, but dont you think free access to all hardcore drugs will cause problems of its own? spontaneous teenagers, perhaps depressed or simply eager to try the rush of cocaine,heroin,lsd etc. surely there would be an increase of drug abuse.

  • Legalize all drugs and all the problems will be gone. Think about it... instead of believing the propaganda fed to you by the media.  The illegality of drugs just puts them on the black market and puts the people in jail. The solution is staring everybody in the face, yet the people are afraid of change and their heads are filled with ideas and opinions not their own, so life on the slave planet called the earth continues. Can we evolve?

  • Opium is another weapon the west is benefiting against Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. That is what we learn from the UK to control the world to be codependent and be busy with, so the can still their wealth.

  • Mr.Bush own all the opium farms in afghanistan.

  • true true true ... but so what! nobody cares!

    w w w . unodc . org /pdf/research/AFG07_ExSum_web.­pdf

  • osama is dead. he's the boogie man the u.s. needs to scare their sheeple into giving up all of their rights... make room for the nwo...smdh

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