somebody call crockett and tubbs
the united nation’s report on afghanistan’s opium production says that the operation funds global chaos. the $65B dollar industry supplies over 90% of the world’s opium, serves 15M addicts, funds world terrorism, and kills 100K people each year. the u.n.’s antonio maria costa says that “the Afghanistan/Pakistan border region has turned into the world’s largest free-trade zone in anything and everything that is illicit – drugs of course, but also weapons, bomb-making equipment, chemical precursors, drug money, even people and migrants.” here are some stunning facts about the drug trade:
- big-time money maker - one gram of heroin in afghanistan will fetch $3 bones while that same gram will fetch 100 of them on a street corner in london, milan, or moscow.
- more deadly than the afghan war -in nato countries, more than 10,000 people die from Afghan heroin each year -that’s more than 5 times the number of nato troups killed since the start of the afghan war 8 years ago.
- under the radar – only 2% of opium exports are seized each year which is stunning compared the the 36% of drugs seized in colombia. even more interesting, seizure rates decline as they get to lucrative markets (iran seizes 20%, pakistan 17%, and russia about 5%).
maybe mrs. reagan was right about that ‘no to drugs’ thing.
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