The colossal growth in fields sown with opium poppy and multi billion dollar profits.

Success will also require more funds for reconstruction, development, and alternatives to opium poppy cultivation.

Poppy Power

Starving farmers, if unassisted, may return to cultivating a very reliable cash crop the opium poppy, long a staple of the warlord economy.

Afghanistan s Opium War

Recognizing the strong and continuing commitment made by the Transitional Administration of Afghanistan at the institutional, legal and administrative levels to eliminate opium poppy cultivation by 2013,

Opium is choking Afghan society.

Winning with Opium in Afghanistan

Religion is opium for the people.

In fact, the eradication of poppy crops not only damage local communities and undermines the international community s goals, but it is also failing opium production last year was at an all time high.

And get some opium at the chemist's.'

Religion is the opium of the people.

Religion is the opium of the people.

26. Notes with interest in this regard the decree issued by the Taliban in July 2000 imposing a total ban on opium poppy cultivation, and calls upon the Taliban to implement fully this decree

The same was true of opium in Asia.

The same was true of opium in Asia.

Peasant farmers may, for a time, be bribed or intimidated (the Taliban executes Afghan poppy growers) into cultivating crops other than poppy or coca.

This program was quickly dubbed the Kebabs for Poppy scheme.

NATO troops should be given the green light to help the Afghan army fight opium destroy the heroin labs, disband the opium bazaars, attack the opium convoys, and bring the big traders to justice.

At the London Conference, world leaders should support the counter narcotics strategy recently approved by the Afghan government, which would reduce economic dependence on opium production, punish traffickers and dealers, and provide sustainable economic alternatives for poppy farmers.

Armed convoys transport raw opium around the country unhindered.

That was two decades before the first Opium War.

2. Expresses its support for the efforts of Member States aimed at strengthening regional cooperation in order to counter the threat to the international community posed by the illicit cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan and its illicit trade

It is difficult to see how NATO can succeed in stabilizing Afghanistan unless it is willing to commit more troops and give commanders more flexibility. Success will also require more funds for reconstruction, development, and alternatives to opium poppy cultivation.

Opium money is corrupting Afghan society from top to bottom.

But any solution in Afghanistan depends on eliminating its opium.

Neither wine, nor opium, nor tobacco are necessary for people s lives.

He promised to slash poppy production in return for tractors, seed, and other goodies.

Improving security and the rule of law must include destroying the opium trade.

Impatient, she flew to Quetta to discuss with Mullah Nasim Aukhundzada a poppy substitution program.

The 2005 Afghanistan Opium Survey, released last November, estimates that the total value of this opium, once turned into heroin and distributed around the world, could reach more than 40 billion.

Mullah Aukhundzada became so angry and humiliated when the promised goodies failed to materialize, that he ordered all the former poppy producing areas, as well as surrounding areas, to double poppy production the following year.

The opium fields of wealthy landowners are untouched, because local officials are paid off.

While hiding out in the caves of Yenan, Mao became a distributor of opium.

An increase in production of medical opium would address its lack of availability worldwide.

1858 in China was the victory in the Opium War by the British forces.

The build up of the Afghan army and police has lagged. The poppy crop has grown.

The promise of funds to fight poppy production galvanized the American Embassy in Islamabad into action.

Licensing the opium crop would be a realistic and pragmatic cornerstone of that strategy s success.

Fighting poppy and or coca production, on the other hand, is an ideal political stance for politicians.

Senior government officials take their cut of opium revenues or bribes in return for keeping quiet.

Farmers will be weaned off opium over the long term only if they have sustainable livelihoods.

Hamid Karzai s government remains weak, and the economy continues to be heavily dependent upon opium production.

In September, the United Nations Office on Drugs Crime announced that poppy cultivation soared by a record high 60 .

Mullah Aukhundzada was the Amir of a big area of Helmand in Southwest Afghanistan, a major poppy producing area.