We should be spraying that crap with herbicide from crop dusters, and dropping little subsistence packets of $20 bills. Then we could go after the middlemen and kill them before they get to the $$$. It would be so much cheaper overall than the global social costs.
Anyone ever read “The politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia” ?
The straight link took me what appears to be on line, is this the one mean?
Big resistance from the Karzai administration on that issue.
I'm more concerned that the Taliban are using it to fund their terrorism and attack our troops. Milton Friedman had the right idea about how to devalue it.