U.N.: Afghan farmers need opium substitute

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KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- The new chief of the United Nations' anti-drug campaign said Saturday Afghan farmers must be helped to switch from opium to legal crops.

Russian diplomat Yuri Fedotov, director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, visited Kabul and met with President Hamid Karzai to discuss drug production and trafficking, RIA Novosti reported.

"We must ensure that Afghan farmers will have access to markets and conditions for normal agricultural production," Fedotov said. "We have to provide Afghan farmers a chance and opportunity to fend for their families, without planting poppy."

 

[SDforever420]

How do the farmers feel like about this? Im sure that poppys make them more money than a crop like corn would

 

[Roger&Me]

They should grow weed instead. Start up some afghani dispensaries, LOL

 

[megawoof]

well the russians deffo want sumthing done about the opium farmers as most of there product is flooding over to russia making russia the largest consumer with record numbers of heroin addicts offically 2.5million but they think 3 times as many plus a epidemic of hiv/hepc

 

[caseface99]

I wonder how the US government would feel about them not planting poppies. Probably wouldn't be very happy.

 

[seep]

The U.N.

condescending paternalistic dickwagons

 

[caseface99]

Who have no power and accomplish nothing.

 

[sackynut]

we have to give them new crops because the US government stole them all

why are we in afghanistan again??? oh yeah for opium/heroin.