Afghans best producers of cannabis: UN

[kiwi_farmer]

Mark Dodd From: The Australian

March 31, 2010 6:08PM

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world...o-1225848182331

Copyright 2010 News Limited

 

 

 

WAR-battered Afghanistan, the world's biggest producer of opium can now claim the title of world leader in hashish production as well, a key UN report has found.

The farm-gate value of Afghanistan's illicit opium production was estimated at $438 million last year compared to $39-94 million for cannabis resin or hashish, a report by the UN Office of Drugs and Crime said today.

 

But in its first survey of cannabis production in Afghanistan, UNODC said the resin yield from Afghan cannabis is the highest in the world.

 

"While other countries have even larger cannabis cultivations, the astonishing yield of the Afghan cannabis crop makes Afghanistan the world's biggest producer of hashish estimated at between 1500-3500 tonnes a year," said UNODC Executive Director, Antonio Maria Costa. The yield of resin (hashish) from Afghan cannabis is 145 kilograms per hectare compared to 40 kilograms per hectare in Morroco.

 

While Afghanistan is better known as the world's biggest producer of opium, up to 24,000 hectares of land is used for growing cannabis, the study claimed.

 

Gross income per hectare earned from cannabis production, $US3900, is higher than opium, $US3600.

 

Like opium production, five years of conflict and lawlessness has seen cannabis production shift from the north to the south where instability is widespread.The drug is also providing a major source of funding for Taliban insurgents.

 

In 2008, a massive 245,000 kg shipment of cannabis was intercepted in Kandahar close to the Pakistan border.

 

"All drugs in Afghanistan, whether opium or cannabis, are taxed by those who control the territory, providing an additional source of revenue for the insurgents," said the UNODC chief."Afghanistan's drug problem is even more complex than just opium trade.

 

"Yet, the remedy remains the same.

 

"By improving security and development in Afghanistan's drug-producing regions, we can knock out the world's biggest supplies of both hash and heroin," Mr Costa said.

 

The Australian Federal Police has more than a dozen agents posted in Afghanistan.

 

They are based in the capital Kabul and southern Oruzgan where their duties include gathering intelligence on the narcotics trade.

[brick]

And that would be less than wholesale price. Certainly winning the war on drugs.

[jabez]

Those evil afganis! How dare they atempt to feed there family by growing a plant!

[Radic]

"Yet, the remedy remains the same.

 

"By improving security and development in Afghanistan's drug-producing regions, we can knock out the world's biggest supplies of both hash and heroin," Mr Costa said.

BS

the war on drugs is a complete failure

drug probation causes more collateral damage than all the wars the planet has ever see put together

all the supporters of drug prohibition make a living out of it

get with the program Mark Dodd

or are you on the take too?????????????

the remedy is legalize all drugs and buy it from the best producers like Afghanistan

pay them for what they are worth

if you dont

the free market forces will

and thats why prohibition never has and never will work

wake up Mark Dodd

smell the flowers

theres nuff of em

thanx to you and yours

we are living in the green house now

$438 million last year compared to $39-94 million for cannabis resin or hashish, a report by the UN Office of Drugs and Crime said today.

well with all the extra guests in the country

you know

gotta keep de customer satisfied

thanx to you and all the supporters of probhition

there will never be a shortage of customers

like i said legalize all drugs and buy it all and use it for its god given purpose---> medicine

free cannabis

free people

free planet

[Kiweed]

none of this good gear seems to be making its way to me in Melbourne.

 

Maybe I need to hang out a little more at the local Mosque.

 

Anyway jokes aside, for the unitiated the CIA is complicit in the illegal drugs trade and profits incredibly from the sale of opium / heroin and cocaine from Afghanastan and South America.

 

Most sheeple will just laugh at this but the information is there to be read on the net from reliable enuf sources.

 

http://www.serendipity.li/cia.html

 

So while it is interesting what comes out of MSM sites like the Australian it is worth remembering first that the Australian, Age, NINEMSN, CNN and so on are government sanctioned news outlets.

 

Read these MSM news items with that in mind as what the government wants you to to read and believe.

 

The total opposite in fact may be the truth.

 

Or another way of saying this, The truth is that MSM is there to deceive the people from the real truth.

 

Kiweed.