08-09-2008, 12:29 AM
Hi,
After reading this article I'm agreeing that if would be best if the US/EU just ponied up the money($600 million or so) to buy the crops from the Afghan farmers at a reasonable market price. Easier than hiring Blackwater to destroy good will and fields of poppies. Maybe our pharmaceutical companies can find a legal outlet. I'm not familiar enough with opiate derivatives, like morphine, and their shelf life.
Or, a two pronged carrot/stick approach, build a farm price support system that pays a high price for alternative Afghan crops, and make it widely known that at any time opium poppies will be destroyed if discovered. I mean, that is why most farmers in the southern US do not grow marijuana.
After reading this article I'm agreeing that if would be best if the US/EU just ponied up the money($600 million or so) to buy the crops from the Afghan farmers at a reasonable market price. Easier than hiring Blackwater to destroy good will and fields of poppies. Maybe our pharmaceutical companies can find a legal outlet. I'm not familiar enough with opiate derivatives, like morphine, and their shelf life.
Or, a two pronged carrot/stick approach, build a farm price support system that pays a high price for alternative Afghan crops, and make it widely known that at any time opium poppies will be destroyed if discovered. I mean, that is why most farmers in the southern US do not grow marijuana.
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