...the United States is still following its policies of eradication realtive to hard drugs emanating from places like Colombia and Afghanistan?
Over the weekend, for instance, a news item mentioned that the record tonnage of poppies in Afghanistan are worth 3 billion dollars in illegal funds.
Wouldn't it be cost effective if we were to spend 3 billions to pay Afghani farmers not to grow poppies? Don't we spend that much paying farmers in our own farming areas, particularly the South, not to grow certain crops?
War on Drugs
Farm Subsidies
Afghanistan
Monday, February 26, 2007
Is there a reason why...
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