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Does anyone know how black-market economics works? Does an increase in heroin supply mean that the end-user prices will drop? The world doesn't need cheap heroin these days. Given the growth in crop volume and the percentage of world production that Afghanistan represents, the problem might be bigger than we think.
Security is a top priority, but this opium production should be dealt with soon. (While still adequately funding quality drug programs at home, of course.)
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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