Carl stay out of the political and depressing crap. Do what you do best!!
Funny stuff. We already are inundated with bad news all the time from all different sources of media.
There are programs (small and privately funded, of course) to teach people how to make a living other than growing poppy. The US government can’t fund programs like this because they are spending all of the money on weapons.
Ahh…very interesting take. Reminds me of the scene in Mel Brooks’ “History Of The World Part 1” in which our intrepid heroes are burning a giant joint while trying to elude their captors. Everybody ends up high and practically singing “Kumbaya” together. There’s some merit to burning the opium fields in order to find peace in Afghanistan, at least.
The Cheech and Chong things were great too. If I recall I probably was in a bit of an “altered state” of consciousness for both. But weed and opium are a far different matter.
Another very good piece of work here, Carl! I’m going to re-post this one. It fits in real well with another post I just did on Afghanistan & the heroin trade.
Articles I have read on this subject state that the people of Afghanistan would suffer greatly without the poppy fields. It has been reported that most Afghans rely on the sale of poppy to support their families.
Instead of making war, maybe we should be teaching them how to farm or other means of support.
Yes the entire economy and infrastructure revolves around this and without this trade in opium the whole society from peasant to highest echelons of that society would collapse. It’s how they finance the country. We have tried alternative agriculture but climate and topography makes that unproductive for export. Dozens of British firms and individuals have laid out nation wide plans and protocols for Afghanistan to make legal morphine out of the opium and this would be very profitable and set up a manufacturing base as well for “real” employment. Europe and North America have a shortage of licit morphine for doctor prescribed pain management. But the opium is sent out to other places to to make into heroin and very little morphine. Too much money in heroin and opium itself as a drug for intoxication.
I’ve read about this, how we can directly trace the growing heroin addiction in this country to our invasion of Afghanistan. Can someone please tell me something good that has directly resulted from this war?
We are safer here, Doncha know? I could pay a few guys $50 to pour gasoline down the elevator shafts of a couple a buildings right here and set afire and run away and that has nothing to do with Al Qaida or anyone in Afghanistan or anywhere else. So how are were safer? We have 160,000 troops there and not a single poppy field has been torched. This is about what faction of Afghan society , be it tribal war lord, drug lord, Taliban, Al Qaida, or crooked law and government and military entities controls the dope. So US has to be involved too.
If we are not burning then we must want some heroin to get here. Then we can make felons out of addicts. Then we provide for 4 million jobs in the criminal justice “industry”
15 responses to “If 70% of the world’s opium comes from Afghanistan …..”
carldagostino
March 17th, 2011 at 07:04
Apparently not or we would not still be there.
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craig
March 17th, 2011 at 00:12
Carl stay out of the political and depressing crap. Do what you do best!!
Funny stuff. We already are inundated with bad news all the time from all different sources of media.
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lifeintheboomerlane
March 13th, 2011 at 10:20
There are programs (small and privately funded, of course) to teach people how to make a living other than growing poppy. The US government can’t fund programs like this because they are spending all of the money on weapons.
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carldagostino
March 13th, 2011 at 10:25
What we spend in a week over there could probably fund basic food, health care and shelter for everyone in the world for a year.
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markp427
March 11th, 2011 at 21:56
Ahh…very interesting take. Reminds me of the scene in Mel Brooks’ “History Of The World Part 1” in which our intrepid heroes are burning a giant joint while trying to elude their captors. Everybody ends up high and practically singing “Kumbaya” together. There’s some merit to burning the opium fields in order to find peace in Afghanistan, at least.
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carldagostino
March 11th, 2011 at 22:50
The Cheech and Chong things were great too. If I recall I probably was in a bit of an “altered state” of consciousness for both. But weed and opium are a far different matter.
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Mountain Republic
March 11th, 2011 at 19:50
Another very good piece of work here, Carl! I’m going to re-post this one. It fits in real well with another post I just did on Afghanistan & the heroin trade.
Again….good job!
MR
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Maxi
March 11th, 2011 at 12:24
Articles I have read on this subject state that the people of Afghanistan would suffer greatly without the poppy fields. It has been reported that most Afghans rely on the sale of poppy to support their families.
Instead of making war, maybe we should be teaching them how to farm or other means of support.
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carldagostino
March 11th, 2011 at 12:39
Yes the entire economy and infrastructure revolves around this and without this trade in opium the whole society from peasant to highest echelons of that society would collapse. It’s how they finance the country. We have tried alternative agriculture but climate and topography makes that unproductive for export. Dozens of British firms and individuals have laid out nation wide plans and protocols for Afghanistan to make legal morphine out of the opium and this would be very profitable and set up a manufacturing base as well for “real” employment. Europe and North America have a shortage of licit morphine for doctor prescribed pain management. But the opium is sent out to other places to to make into heroin and very little morphine. Too much money in heroin and opium itself as a drug for intoxication.
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Amy
March 11th, 2011 at 12:01
I’ve read about this, how we can directly trace the growing heroin addiction in this country to our invasion of Afghanistan. Can someone please tell me something good that has directly resulted from this war?
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carldagostino
March 11th, 2011 at 12:17
We are safer here, Doncha know? I could pay a few guys $50 to pour gasoline down the elevator shafts of a couple a buildings right here and set afire and run away and that has nothing to do with Al Qaida or anyone in Afghanistan or anywhere else. So how are were safer? We have 160,000 troops there and not a single poppy field has been torched. This is about what faction of Afghan society , be it tribal war lord, drug lord, Taliban, Al Qaida, or crooked law and government and military entities controls the dope. So US has to be involved too.
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Zahara
March 11th, 2011 at 02:04
Yikes.
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carldagostino
March 11th, 2011 at 06:45
I does not seem to me that we are making a war on drugs at all.
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Sana Johnson-Quijada MD
March 11th, 2011 at 00:22
ouch
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carldagostino
March 11th, 2011 at 06:44
If we are not burning then we must want some heroin to get here. Then we can make felons out of addicts. Then we provide for 4 million jobs in the criminal justice “industry”
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