BrasscheckTV: Bait, set, and trap: Playing both sides of the bogus drug war‏

Lisbon,
 
I've said in the past that governments are the biggest drug dealers
in the world.
 
More opium/heroin comes out of Afghanistan now than ever has before.
 
Since the beginning of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan in 2001,
heroin use has skyrocketed here at home and worldwide.
 
Geraldo Rivera says we 'tolerate' their culture of opium
cultivation, but Lieutenant Colonel Brian Christmas, speaking of
the opium growers, says, "...we provide them security, we're
providing them resources."
 
Someone out there is going to say I'm taking this 'out of context',
well, no, I'm putting it IN context.
 
Opium Wonderland Afghan Style...
 
Video:
 
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/10724.html
 
Goodman Green
- Brasscheck

Opium Wonderland Afghan Style

Created by Robert Allison of PIGMINE

 

Afghan opium production 'rises by 61%' compared with 2010

Opium production in Afghanistan rose by an estimated 61% this year compared with 2010, according to a UN report.

BBC News

The increase has been attributed to rising opium prices that have driven farmers to expand cultivation of the illicit opium poppy by 7% in 2011.

Last year opium production halved largely due to a plant infection which drastically reduced yields.

Afghanistan produces 90% of the world's opium - 5,800 tonnes this year - the main ingredient of heroin.

Analysts say that revenue from the drug has helped fund the Taliban insurgency.

Farmers who responded to the survey described economic hardship and lucrative prices as the main reasons for the increase.

Nearly 80% of the opium grown in Afghanistan is being produced in provinces in the south, including Helmand and Kandahar, which are among the most volatile in the country.

The UN says this demonstrates that there is a clear link between insecurity and opium cultivation.

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