Herion booming in Afghanistan

[valve bouncer]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Herion-booming-in-Afghanistan/2004/11/19/1100748170705.html

I was particularly interested where it was quoted that opium is the "main engine of economic growth and the strongest bond among previously quarrelsome peoples"

So it's damned if we do and damned if we don't. Cracking down on herion will stifle economic growth and threaten stability. It wouldn't surprise me if the efforts to crack down on the opium trade are half-hearted window dressing as the alternative may be worse.

[Skookum]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Herion-booming-in-Afghanistan/2004/11/19/1100748170705.html

I was particularly interested where it was quoted that opium is the "main engine of economic growth and the strongest bond among previously quarrelsome peoples"

So it's damned if we do and damned if we don't. Cracking down on herion will stifle economic growth and threaten stability. It wouldn't surprise me if the efforts to crack down on the opium trade are half-hearted window dressing as the alternative may be worse.
To disclose a certain amount of personal illumination, i'm a drug addict and one of the reasons of why i quit is i simply didn't want to be part of the government judicial system. A sort of reverse rebelling train of thought i suppose. If you dabble more than the average joe in narcotics and such you're essentially creating a reason for supporting someones salary in the "system".
This of course is a simplistic convoluted reason out of a myriad of many more reasons though.

[Toshi]

as long as we're bringing freedom to oppressed people everything is ok. at least until the boxer rebellion II comes around

[Slugman]

I guess I was wrong about the Bush administration - they are not just in it for the OIL...

[fluff]

So VB, is herion a form of refined opuim?

[ALEXIS_DH]

lol, if drug laws were TRULY enforced, the economies and lives of a few hundred million people on earth (i dont thin am exagerating) would take a big blow or collapse.

[valve bouncer]

So VB, is herion a form of refined opuim?
Is this a trick question?

[fluff]

Is this a trick question?
Mabye

[valve bouncer]

Mabye
Where are you going with this mate?

[fluff]

Where are you going with this mate?
Nohwere, just wasting cyberspace basically. It's all to do with the elvis of drugs.

[zod]

A little white rock opium never hurt nobody....... :evil:

[fluff]

A little white rock opium never hurt nobody....... :evil:
Intentional double negative?

[zod]

I'm from the South.......we don't care about "proper" English..........hell I'm lucky I can read (alittle)

[dante]

A little white rock opium never hurt nobody....... :evil:

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