Did you know there is a world wide shortage of Morphine? The west can't manufacture enough of the stuff for pain relief for cancer patients and the chronically ill.
Also, did you know that one third of Afghanistans gross domestic product comes from the illegal growing of poppies, that drug barons turn into Heroin and sell to addicts here in the developed world. The US spends millions of dollars having troops over there to destroy these fields and generally pissing off the local farmers, who 'live' on less than $2 a day.
Wouldn't it be a great idea, if, instead of destroying this crop, America and the UK paid these farmers a fair price for the poppies to turn into morphine. That way, the farmers would have a decent wage to live on, there would be a good supply of the pain killer, and the drug barons would have to look else where for their shite. It would also help stabilise the country and get some kind of economy started. Thats three problems solved.
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
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4 comments:
why dont the troops just storm in, nick the poppies, send em back home and we can turn them into morphine......ok i know the farmers will have continuous crops and if we storm in they might not grow anymore, but hey, it was just an idea.
Well, we could, but Im talking about solving a problem not aggravating it!
but i love aggrevating things.
LOL! his new colleagues will need it now :-)
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