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Afghanistan produced record levels of opium in 2007 for the second straight year, led by a staggering 45 percent increase in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand Province, according to a new United Nations survey to be released Monday.

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  • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)markoller
    markoller
    Aug. 26, 2007, 12:14 p.m.

    America's Orwellian government and anti-drug hysterics are 100% to blame for Afghan opium financing terror. Heroin is a safer analgesic than aspirin or acetaminophen. It does not cause ulcers and liver failure. When perscribed for years to cancer patients in Britain, fewer than 1% become addicted. Among street users, only 10% are addicts, as opposed to 98% for cigarette smokers.

    Most addicts of any kind also begin by smoking. Since the United States has plastered the globe with Marlboro Man billboards, obviously aimed at five year olds, we have no right to object to Afghan opium. Furthermore, in the late nineteenth century morphine was successfully used to treat nicotine and alcohol addiction.

    Perhaps, that is the reason the tobacco and liquor industries are major contributors to the war on drugs. They definately are not philanthropists.

    • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)OldRusty
      OldRusty
      Aug. 26, 2007, 10:27 p.m.

      We need to kill-out all those flower growers, result end of drug addicts on heroin.

      • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)Teech
        Teech
        Aug. 27, 2007, 1:14 a.m.

        ..."Among street users, only 10% are addicts, as opposed to 98% for cigarette smokers."

        Interesting statistic. I agree with the 98% for cigarette smokers, but I'll have to see some reliable evidence regarding the heroin statistic. Even the synthetic forms of heroin used in pain medicines (oxycontin etc) seem to result in a high rate of addiction, but I have no research study facts to back that up either.

        However, nothing big pharm or big tobacco does to enrich themselves would surprise me.

        Decriminalizing some of these substances will not solve the addiction problem, but removing the enormous profits the cartels make and somehow regulating the stuff would eliminate a huge amount of the petty crimes committed to finance drug habits. All that ancillary crime, sometimes violent, is a bigger problem, and a much larger cost to society than the addiction per se.

        • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)markoller
          markoller
          Aug. 27, 2007, 1:16 a.m.

          Not only is your proposal insane and murderous, but your use of the odd term, "kill-out," raises questions about your sanity. Schizophrenia impairs all mental functions, including the ability to speak coherently. Often, the most severely schizophrenic speak nothing but gibberish.

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