Posted on 06/26/2007 1:11:49 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
Opium production in Afghanistan is soaring out of control, the annual UN report on illegal drugs says.
The World Drug Report says more than 90% of illegal opium, which is used to make heroin, comes from Afghanistan.
It says cultivation of opium poppies increased dramatically in the country, despite the presence of more than 30,000 international troops there.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Doesn’t the U.S. use agent orange anymore?
Even better word: Eradicate.
No, that wold be a stupid word.
Of course! Let’s legalize an extremely addictive and hazardous drug. Heck, herion has done nothing in the world but spread sunshine and lollypops.
/sarc
YEP.
There is no will to do this because so many Afghans in good old ‘lecture the Americans’ Karzai’s government are on the take , if not the drug lords themselves.
It doesn't contain 'dioxins' either. It's a member of the chlorophenoxy family of selective herbicides. (kills a target weed without damaging the crop)
Its major uses in agriculture are on wheat and small grains, sorghum, corn, rice, sugar cane, low-till soybeans, rangeland, and pasture. It is also used on rights-of-way, roadsides, non-crop areas, forestry, lawn and turf care, and on aquatic weeds. It is the third most widely used herbicide in the world today.
After 60 years of use and many studies, it was concluded (in 1996) that: “The phenoxy herbicides are low in toxicity to humans and animals (1,9). No scientifically documented health risks, either acute or chronic, exist from the approved uses of the phenoxy herbicides.”
If 2,4-D, MCPA and mecoprop - were not available to farmers, crop costs would increase by 2.9%. In terms of increased food production and lower food prices, it's benefits are known to be enormous. 2,4-D has for the past sixty years, been a major tool in the continuing fight to reduce world hunger.
(Dost 2003), “2,4-D is possibly the most extensively researched of all pesticides, and the data have been examined by an unusual number of advisory committees and work groups.”
It has nothing in common with “agent orange” which is gelled petroleum based defoliant. Nice bit of moonbat propaganda however. Just goes to show that one of the safest herbicides known isn't immune to the moonbat propaganda these idiots who haven't a clue about farming spread around.
Sure, roundup will kill poppies too, along with everything else it touches, including food crops.
Like I said... eradicate.
It would work a lot better if we didn't have liberals letting drug dealers out of prison all the time, or not even putting them in there in the first place.
But hey, lets legalize it, turn kids into zombies at an even earlier age, and kill them off. It's not enough illegal drug abuse costs society enormous amounts of money for methadone clinics, welfare for the braindamaged, mental institutions, crime, etc etc etc. Lets LEGALIZE it and multiply those problems 10 fold. That will smarten the nation up, and make it a better place....
Interesting remarks about 24D however .
Could it be that the combo of 24D and 2-4-5T was especially
toxic ? And the dioxins? Is it not common knowledge that
Agent Orange was a 2-4D based compound?
I will need to research this more . I have taken the word
of a number of Viet Vet friends that had looked into it
as a result of their own exposures , quite extensively.
there was also a certain Baccillus (bacteria) that they were looking at that appeared to affect only Papaver sp.
It was supposedly testing in Khazakstan or somewhere?
Wonder what happened to that ?
” in one corner we have Nathan Bedford! and in the other corner Nathan Zachary ! and here’s the Bell! “
*ding*
;^)
That's exactly what people who deal drugs, smuggle drugs, and TAKE those drugs do, provide income for Islamic terrorists. Considering that a lot of that stuff is destined for the AMERICAN market, recreational drug use is a pretty UN-patriotic thing to do.
It wouldn't be a business if people didn't take them. And don't think that dealing, smuggling, and all the other crime associated with recreational drug use would go away. It would just get WORSE. The addicted would still be unemployable, they would still need their daily fixes, and they would still need "the good (and cheaper) stuff".
All legalization would do is add tax and regulations. You'd STILL go to jail (supposedly) for breaking possession limit laws, dealing unregulated product laws, production laws, All the laws you see on tobacco and alcohol.
The "legalize it" lobby never thinks about the reality of what legalization would mean,- probably because they are too stoned and don't have enough brain cells left to think.
I don't know how you can do that when the principal source of income in Afghanistan is to engage in illegal activity which succeeds because it corrupts the system from the farmer to the very top. Can you imagine a surer way to breed cynicism and confound a struggling, emerging democracy? As our boys fight and die to nurture a democracy, these cynical Afghans must be laughing at our naïveté.
To a Muslim, distilling spirits and the consumption of them is sinful. Walk a ways in the Afghan' s moccasins and consider how you would feel if Islamo-terrorists succeed in imposing sharia law in America and made it a capital offense to possess or consume alcoholic beverages?
There are many instrumentalities in this world that are dangerous and self-defeating such as alcohol, tobacco, possession of firearms, trans fats, etc. Our society makes a judgment about whether we want the state to make this decision for the individual, in which case we vote for Hillary Clinton, or whether we leave it to the individual to make his choice and take his consequences, in which case we line up with William F. Buckley.
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