LOL I was thinking the same thing.
You want a couple of farmers to survive at the expense of thousands of overdosed drug users worldwide! ROFL
Not thousands of overdosed drug users. In Russian alone, Afghan heroin has killed around 2,000,000 people in the last 15 years (mostly in the 15-25 age group). In Iran also, hundreds of thousands have lost their lives. Similar are the figures in countries such as Ukraine, Moldova and Azerbaijan. This is one of the most successful CIA operations to date, having exterminated the entire generation of young people in Russia and Iran.
But we should not blame the Afghan farmers either. They receive only around $100 per year, as profits from this business. The remaining profits are pocketed by the middlemen. If there are 100,000 Afghan farmers cultivating opium poppy, an allowance of $100 per head is enough to stop the practice. Comes to $10 million per year. But it will never happen, as the NATO is forcing the farmers to cultivate poppy, instead of the preferred crops such as barley or wheat.
