Afghan Opium Solution Proposed
Here's a novel idea. A think tank in Afghanistan has a proposed solution to the opium problem in Afghanistan.
The West should buy up Afghanistan's opium crop and license its use for pain-relief medicines rather than trying to destroy the crop.
The Senlis Council, an international drug policy think-tank with operations in Afghanistan, says the planned deployment of 3,000 British troops to smash the narcotics trade there is doomed to fail. Senlis will present a feasibility study of its plan today at Chatham House in London. The idea is to establish a licensing system under which the Afghan government would control poppy cultivation for the production of opium-based pain killers, such as morphine and codeine, rather than trying to suppress it.
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