Freedom loving Ameircan puts his finger on the crucial issue.  The Taliban crushed the opium trade, one of the reasons that they were so easily deposed, naving lost peasant support.  Under the US, opium growing increased enormously, and, according to a truther on a English language paper in an Arabic country, it was ferried in US military planes across the border to Turkey to be processed into heroin.  There is an enormous amount of money in hard drugs, as long as they are kept illegal to keep the price high. 

the trade with Turkey involved Israel and arms, also a big money maker, and was one of the reasons that Valerie Plane was outed, to keep her from informing on it.

The US plan apparently is to keep the drugs illegal while stopping any efforts to enforce the law, increasing the supply of heroin.  Afghanistan now accounts for 90% of the heroin in the world market.  Buying it for medical purposess wouldn’t make near as much money.  And isn’t making money what American Freedom&Democracy; is all about?

Uh…This wouldn’t have a single thing to do with New Zealand growing “50% of the medical opium poppies in the world”, would it? I wonder who’s growing the other 50%?...

Guess American Big Pharm couldn’t pay the American Government enough to put those “bloody British drug dealers” (read: Getting their medically used opium cheap) on the rug by having their own cheap source of opium poppies. Sigh. Big Pharm will just have to keep paying premium price from ... whoever’s growing the other 50%...

Double your prices, guys! Big Pharm will no longer be able to fund Anti-Constitutional groups like anti-smokers, Lung Associations and FDA! Wheeeeee!

Sorry. Did I say that out loud? Ooopsie!

At last the voice of reason is heard dimly in the distance. The whole poppy ‘problem’ could be solved very easily. All that poppy in Afghanistan is badly needed because there’s a world wide shortage of poppy being grown for medicine. Pay the farmers for medical poppy and voila! 90% of the heroin gone. This won’t stop someone else growing it. The only thing that will stop that happening is to legalize heroin. It will then come off the black market and when the dealers can only charge market value it just won’t be worth it to hang around on street corners or in front of schools selling drugs. Even those running the so-called war on drugs know that they might as well be pissing in the breeze but the taxpayers’ dollars come flooding in and that makes them remember why they’re doing what they’re doing. After world war II people were selling cigarettes and women’s stockings on the streets for ridiculous prices. It was a black market. They all operate the same way and have the same result somewhere along the chain of supply and demand. Rich crooks.

Who wants to bet California taxes Their Green Bud by this time next year? How about letting all the local growers out of Jail? This Governmental “reccession” will be the straw that breaks the Drug War’s back, Who would of thunk it? When can I start collecting My check for “PSTD” for my 30 years of service in the “War”. FUCK YOU! Hypocrit Bastards, Have a Drink and screw another poor person.

Seems their War on Drugs was as successful there as here. Chalk up another raving failure for the American government.

This article is confusing.  It says the US will stop the poppy eradication funding in Afghanistan.  I’m assuming everyone knows there was no poppy growing in Afghanistan until the bush-petraeus gun running/drug running cartels invaded the country in 2001.  Since then, they spent millions (of our taxpayers dollars) setting up the poppy growing operations. They have made hundreds of millions if not billions through their drug running/ arms dealing cartels. These funny little MSM articles are so cute and yet informing.