Opium Economy

**Idaho** · 03-08-2006, 12:44

The Taliban reduced opium production massively. But then we aren't allowed to talk about that.

**rory_20_uk** · 03-08-2006, 13:42

Yup, they stored it in big warehouses and then later sold it off. If it wasn't illegal anyway, fixing the market like that would be a crime.

With enough data, any regime is bound to do something "right": terrorist wins peace prize - as he stopped planting bombs...

Why doesn't America do what it does in South America? Just ponce over there and spray it all. The locals get so much money out of the poppies they're not going to stop it.

The west needs to legalise drugs. That'd sort the problem out!

**Vladimir** · 03-08-2006, 15:20

Originally Posted by Idaho

The Taliban reduced opium production massively. But then we aren't allowed to talk about that.

If by "reduced" you mean widespread cultivation to fund their regime then you are correct. Selling opium and heroin to the "West" is part of the Islamocrazies war against our way of life. I suspect that if there were limits on production it was done to strengthen the Taliban's control of the opium market.

**Kanamori** · 03-08-2006, 15:55

A war against our way of life? Maybe its a drug people like to use and have been using for quite some time. The vast majority of people are scared to use it, and rightly so.

**Vladimir** · 03-08-2006, 15:57

Originally Posted by Kanamori

A war against our way of life? Maybe its a drug people like to use and have been using for quite some time. The vast majority of people are scared to use it, and rightly so.

Maybe you need to keep it in context. One of the reasons they supported and encouraged the production of opium is to have us die from it.

**Kanamori** · 03-08-2006, 16:10

They've said that? If that was really their goal, why didn't they lace the crap out of it? I'm sure many would use it before people started to re-purify it when they got it. Heroin itself doesn't kill many people, its only when people get different purities and they're used to another one, or when it is mixed w/ dangerous stuff. And overall, I don't think that a large percent of Heroin users die due to use.

**Vladimir** · 03-08-2006, 16:16

Originally Posted by Kanamori

They've said that? If that was really their goal, why didn't they lace the crap out of it? I'm sure many would use it before people started to re-purify it when they got it. Heroin itself doesn't kill many people, its only when people get different purities and they're used to another one, or when it is mixed w/ dangerous stuff. And overall, I don't think that a large percent of Heroin users die due to use.

Think about what you just said. If people know your product is defective or dangerous will they continue to purchase it from you? As far as what “they’ve said”, they’ve said a lot of things like that and it seems that you don’t believe they’re capable of it.

**Dâriûsh** · 03-08-2006, 16:28

Officially they (the Talibs) were against opium growing, and officially they waged a war against it. In fact, I remember a Taliban website (before 2001 when the Talibs decided that the internet was bad) describing their war against drug farmers and smugglers.

I also think Mullah Omar put a fatwa on it, but I could be mistaken.