Should they make the poppy fields in Afghanistan Legal?

Question

If so can they tax it effectivel and perhaps turn some drug lords into businessmen or do they need to get rid of the drug lords also?

Answer 1

Mr Blair is now considering whether to back a pilot project that would allow some farmers to produce and sell their crops legally to drugs companies.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Good News for Afghanistan
From the Independent:

"A Downing Street spokesman confirmed last night that Mr Blair is now considering whether to back a pilot project that would allow some farmers to produce and sell their crops legally to drugs companies. His change of heart has surprised the Foreign Office, which recently denied that licit poppy production was being considered. A freedom of information request has revealed that the Government looked carefully at proposals to buy up Afghanistan's poppy crop as early as 2000, under the Taliban. The removal of that regime - justified to both US and British voters partly in terms of a victory in the "war on drugs" - has made it politically difficult to financially reward poppy farmers."

But the links between drug warlords, terrorism and the Taliban are clear. Traffickers hold poor farmers in a form of bondage through the supply of credit, paid back in opium. Many of those fighting British troops during the winter months will return to their villages to harvest poppy crops in the spring and summer. The traffickers' huge profits help to fund the fight against NATO troops.

Answer 2

Yes even tony Blair has suggested it. It will lower the cost for medical heroin/morphine.

Also the goverment can then tax it and take the power away from the terrorists and drug lords.

Answer 3

Is there any Agent Orange left over from the Vietnam War that we could spray on the fields?

Answer 4

Since Bush gave Afghanistan back to al-Qaida and the Taliban, they pretty much are legal, since that makes it a government enterprise, more or less.

Answer 5

Yeah, sure, we need more heroin addicts in the world and lord knows the terrorist needs the extra money to buy more bombs to kill more innocent people with.