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Skybird · 03-27-07, 06:34 AM

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...473933,00.html

the idea is not new: to sell all the stuff to pharmaceutical companies. Only problems are these: Afghanistan produces very much more of this stuff than there is need for it on the pharmaceutical market, and if the money from the sales no longer goes directly to local warlords, rebels and Taleban, but to the farmers, it will not take long until farmers will have to pay protection money. Which means that NATO will pay indirectly into Taleban pockets and consider this practice to be "legal".

"Trapped in the Afghan maze" one more time again!

03-27-07, 06:34 AM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,611 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	NTO to legalise Afghan poppy cultivation? http://www.spiegel.de/international/...473933,00.html the idea is not new: to sell all the stuff to pharmaceutical companies. Only problems are these: Afghanistan produces very much more of this stuff than there is need for it on the pharmaceutical market, and if the money from the sales no longer goes directly to local warlords, rebels and Taleban, but to the farmers, it will not take long until farmers will have to pay protection money. Which means that NATO will pay indirectly into Taleban pockets and consider this practice to be "legal". "Trapped in the Afghan maze" one more time again! __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.