Cannabis replacing opium poppies in Afghanistan

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/04/asia/cannabis.php


Amid the multiplying frustrations of the fight against narcotics in Afghanistan, the northern province of Balkh has been hailed as a rare and glowing success.

Two years ago the province, which abuts Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, was covered with opium poppies - about 11,000 hectares of them, or 27,000 acres, nearly enough to blanket Manhattan twice. This year, after an intense anti-poppy campaign led by the governor, Balkh's farmers abandoned the crop. The province was declared poppy free, with 12 others, and the provincial government was promised a reward of millions of dollars in development aid.

But largely ignored in the celebration was the fact that many farmers in Balkh simply switched from opium poppies to another illegal crop: cannabis, the herb from which marijuana and hashish are derived.
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nice - I've had Afghani weed and it is super duper

:kick:

:smoke:

to the destabilization of Afghanistan...and have all your assets frozen for all time and thrown out of your apartment/home etc etc etc

this is NOT good news or it is fabricated in order to make pot MORE ILLEGAL!!!

time to end prohabition...

:smoke:

and it was kick ass.

be grown here so we can compete? Hey, if you're gonna dream, dream big. LOL