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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Snowshoe who wrote (311935)6/27/2009 2:57:22 PM
From: LindyBill5 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 793955
 
but we'd be putting some other folks out of business. Right now they're growing 50,000 acres of legal opium poppies in Tasmania...

The reason poppy based drugs are so high-priced is that we have set up a monopoly that gives most of the business to India and Turkey.

I have said from the start that if we took the billions of aid we are wasting on Afghanistan and paid it to the warlords to run the poppy business, with the understanding that they have to eradicate the terrorists in exchange, we could have gone home in 2002. We would have recouped our billions reselling the poppies.

Perfect solution? No. But tons better than what we are doing.
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