Farmers in Afghanistan are finally finding something to grow that will make them more money than opium.
Cannabis.
IDPC reports on a UNODC survey…
The findings confirmed Afghanistan’s role as a major grower of cannabis, but also discovered that the country produced more cannabis resin or hashish than any other nation.
Cannabis gross income shot up for farmers between 2009 and 2010 from $3,900 per hectare (about 2.5 acres) to $9,000 per hectare. Opium was at $4,900 and wheat at $770.
That drug war really is effective, isn’t it?
Cannabis is good. Does it require less labor, too?
I bet some of that money somehow makes its way into the hands of all the major US drug prohibitionists… Kerlikowske, Leonhart, Smith and probably a lot of senators/governers.
And,unless the accumulated wisdom of the ages was wiped clean by the Taliban, they make some pretty righteous hash in that part of the world….
(Chuckling) Yes, crop substitution worked…for only this one time.
Facepalm) I keep thinking about that old SF story called “The Marching Morons”. Generation after generation of ’em, and they just naturally seem to gravitate to the jobs – like drug prohibitionist – where their incompetency causes massive damage to society as a whole. There’s just no end of ’em.
“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.â€
– Archibald MacLeish, “In Praise of Dissent,” 1956
This is all happening while the might of the US and other militaries are ‘controlling’ the country? The amount of cannabis being grown is increasing, the profits are immense, and the US army can’t stop it. LOL.
HOW DARE THEY THINK THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY!!!
The U.S. is spending TEN BILLION DOLLARS A MONTH occupying Afghanistan. Your tax dollars at work.
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Well that’s good news. The best hashish I ever enjoyed came from Afghanistan. To be fair I’ve never given any coming out of a California dispensary a fair test so I could just be living in the past. But that black hash that the
terroristsAfghan Freedom Fighters sent over here in the early 1980s was top shelf back then at least.Affie was always good weed.
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INTRODUCTION TO HASHISH AROUND THE WORLD
An overview of the above countries showing and listing Commercial Centers for Hashish. Morocco, Lebanon, Afghanistan, India and the Himalayas.
Afghan kush <3