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Originally Posted by highthief
No one is going to stop growing poppies until there is something else they can make money of. These people are among the poorest in the world. Poppies are the only industry they have, farmer and drug lord alike. You expect they're gonna start farming microchips and motherboards?
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I'm not conveying my point clearly enough here, please excuse.
Perhaps it was a shame for the Taliban to wipe out 75% of the world's heroin use. As I understand they werent making nearly the amount growing ongions as they do poppies.
In the $60 Billion dollar a year average what percentage, if any is channeled to any current politician? That figure represents the cold cash on the street from drug profits, not the big business spent to fight it.