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No need to track down drug traffickers or deal with the hard work of ripping up plants in the fields of Afghanistan. Opium is so plentiful in that country, that the DEA could pick up 20,000 pounds of it in the offices of the provincial governor.
A bit embarrassing, don’t you think?
Still nobody willing to state the obvious — the drug war is a failure there (as well as here), and needs to be scrapped.
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