POPPY SEED DEBATE





According to the article referenced here and featured in Join Together, there is a shortage of morphine in the world and the proposed solution is to legalize the Afghan poppy supply.



Apparently, according to Gordon Smith, Canada’s former NATO ambassador, the poppy eradication program is Afghanistan is “alienating farmer and forcing them into the arms of the Taliban or drug traffickers.”



While not posed as a perfect solution it presents the possibility of more control over the opium market that is going to exist, whether we like it or not.



Controlling the opium market through determination of who the end user is going to be of the opium is an interesting solution. Perhaps, this coupled with a full scale drug prevention program in the United States (cutting down the heroin customer base) could help eliminate the large market place for heroin that the US is now.



It is known that these fields have long financed the Taliban insurgency. This is an important point, but one perhaps more out of the realm of what the average US citizen can do something about.



The fact is that innocent people are dying from heroin overdoses. Others, while still breathing are the walking dead and the poppy seeds have claimed at least a piece of their life. Let’s deal with casualties of the war here at home.



We can do something about this situation with effective drug education and drug treatment. Narconon provides both. 877-413-3073









http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2007/legalize-afghan-poppy.html



http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2008/taliban-stockpiles-opium-to.html



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