Afghanistan has produced another massive poppy crop?
for example, are any legitimate medicines still produced from opium, or is it all going to used for illegal drugs?
Answer:
Morphine consists of 10 % opium. Heroin is the best known chemical derivative of morphine and the drug of choice for most American users. Coedine which is found in opium is much less potent than morphine and a derivative of it. In addition to heroin the dollowing drugs are among those more potent than morphine: Dilaudid, Mumorphan, methyldilaudid,
levorphan and pbenazocine. So there are very legitimate uses for this crop, but unfortunately the illegal use of these drugs is more profitable . Our challenge is to find a cash crop more profitable than opium.
A blind eye is being turned on this crop by the UK and the US Governments ! serious double standards!
Opium is a by product of poppies. It is put in medicines like Lamotal. which is a medicine for diarreah, some countries put it in chocolate. But for the most part, I think you are right. The bad guys are selling it on the streets.
When the Taliban were in power the production of opium was more or less stopped. When the U.S got in there it soared again. ask the CIA.
I think many medicines are produced from opium, morphine for instance is a derivative of opium. It's still the best form of pain killer there is, and there are a lot of people in a lot of pain, all around the world. Where this crop will go, who knows? I think for many people, it's all about money.
Morphine is i believe opium based,
if ever there was a case for using napalm them fields look
like a very nice place to get rid of any unused stock,
make sure all those Taliban are out of the way first of course
we wouldn't want to singe there beards would we.
Morphine. What a double standard we practice. We spend billions on the war on drugs in the US, but turn a blind eye to the worlds biggest producer of opium and heroin so we don't alienate the poor farmers in Afghanistan who rely on the poppy crop for subsistence. And the grower really doesn't end up with much of the final value of the drug- most goes to the processor, middlemen and street vendors. With the level of world hunger in third world countries, doesn't it make more sense for developed countries to subsidize Afgan farmers to grow legitimate food crops?
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