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Opium production has increased.

Twenty ounces tincture of opium.

40 hashish. 60 opium

Afghanistan remains the world's largest supplier of opium, producing 87 per cent of the world's opium.

In Bolivia and Peru, coca was integrated into society.

The same was true of opium in Asia.

Don't forget that out of a kilo of opium, only a third can be smoked.

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

During the visit they witnessed the destruction of large amounts of opium, heroin, opium oil, liquid opium and other drugs seized by the Myanmar authorities.

But any solution in Afghanistan depends on eliminating its opium.

Unfortunately, Afghanistan's share of opium production continues to remain high.

A large number of Hmong villagers have voluntarily abandoned the growing of opium.

Afghanistan thereby figures among the world apos s largest producers of illicit opium.

Australia remains concerned at the high levels and pervasiveness of opium production in Afghanistan.

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

For the first time, detailed baseline data on opium production at the village level are now available.

Hamid Karzai s government remains weak, and the economy continues to be heavily dependent upon opium production. The Taliban and Al Qaeda networks are re emerging as political and military threats.

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

Taking note of the increasing awareness of the Government of Myanmar of the need to comprehensively address the production of opium in Myanmar,

It has also been decided that the number of points for the transfer of opium after its collection should be reduced.

Moreover, while certain efforts by the Government of Afghanistan have resulted in the reduction of opium cultivation in some regions traditionally famous for opium production, opium cultivation has increased in the regions bordering my country, especially in the Farah province.

Modern methods of storage and transport are being employed for the purpose of eliminating leakage while opium is in the process of transit and transfer.

Also, through a Presidential Ordinance, legal lacunae regarding the definition of opium have been removed from the relevant laws.

Afghanistan is now one of the world apos s largest producers of opium as well as other narcotic drugs.

With its present estimated production level, Afghanistan is probably the major opium producing country in the world.

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

From its base in India, the Company had also been engaged in an increasingly profitable opium export trade to China since the 1730s.

Scientific instruments are being designed and developed so that the moisture content of opium may be determined, and its weight accurately measured, actually in the farmer apos s field.

In order to reduce opium production the Lao Government currently has four integrated rural development projects under way.

Forced eradication risks pushing farmers into the hands of extremists, and thus will not lead to the sustainable reduction of opium fields.

Indeed, the UN estimates that just six countries prescribe 78 of the total legal production of opiates, implying shortages of opium based painkillers in many of the UN s 185 other member states.

In order to ensure total safety for the licit production of opium, a number of measures have been taken in the current year to prevent leakage.

This year s record harvest of 6,100 tons of opium will generate more than 3 billion in illicit revenue equivalent to almost half of Afghanistan s GDP.

People from the Wa region, where the ban was implemented in 2005, fled to areas where growing opium is still possible.

However, drug trafficking and production of opium, cannabis and other drugs is not any significant problem in the country.

The production of opium has been reduced from 800 tons in 1978 79 to about 150 tons in 1992 93.

Up to 60 of the old growth forest in Nangahar, the second largest opium producing province, may have been cut during the war years.

Not that drug use has increased fantastically after all, huge quantities of alcohol, opium and other drugs were consumed back then.

The main objective of these development projects is to offer opium producers viable alternatives on the economic, social and ecological levels.

It provides for, among other things, the stimulation of rural development in opium producing areas as another key element of the opium elimination strategy.

They refer to the fact that Afghanistan is quot now one of the world apos s largest producers of opium as well as other narcotic drugs. ...

Another thing I worry about in the global commons is the threat posed by trafficking, by the movement of narcotics, opium, here coming out of Afghanistan through Europe over to the United States.

Neighbors that used to be transit states for drugs are now major consumers, owing to similar dramatic increases in opium and heroin addiction. Intravenous drug use is spreading HIV AIDS in Iran, Central Asia, and the former Soviet Union.