Poppycock! the war on drugs

Off-topic
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TheTaliban was successful in banning poppies: http://opioids.com/afghanistan/
but now that they are out of power, the drugs are winning: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/01/international/asia/01POPP.html From the recent NYTimes:
ABUL, Afghanistan, June 30 — So many farmers grew opium poppies in Afghanistan this spring that the opium market here is now flooded, causing prices for the illegal drug to drop by an average of 65 percent across the country, according to Afghan officials, Western diplomats and opium farmers. Afghanistan produces two-thirds of the world’s opium, but comparatively little of it is consumed domestically.

Someone has to tell me this is poppycock!!! :slight_smile:

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You can’t expect the new government and the forign troops there to enforce a ban on opium production as effectively as the Taliban already. Taliban had the know-how and the experience. Banning things in Afganistan was what they did. Music, drugs, books, you name it. On a good day they could ban just about anything.

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This is Poppycock:
http://www.lincolnsnacks.com/Poppycock/poppycock.htm

Poppycock is also a circus (comic):
http://www.poppycockcircus.com/store.php

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I’ll bet they could make the trains run on time, too.

I was hoping someone could send me 5 links telling me the NYTimes was lying about the poppies in Afghanistan. :slight_smile:

John: I loved the FatCat Monocles: “For you cannot crush the proletariate if you cannot see them” tee-shirts. Thanks for the link!!

Billy

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reminiscent of what happened to caviar from the old russian republics when the strong central control (and artificial price control) fell away
i don’t have a link handy