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2012-04-20 Afghanistan

Taliban intend to protect their poppy cash crop

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Posted by Besoeker 2012-04-20 09:25|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Mods, my apology. Please add the preposition "to"... to the title line following "intend." Thanks for posting!

Posted by Besoeker 2012-04-20 10:02|| 2012-04-20 10:02|| Front Page Top

#2 We should have developed Agent Orange 2.0 to eradicate the opium crop, and sprayed it with a UAV variant that can act as a crop duster. These farmers and their families should starve to death for all the misery they have caused with their crops.

Posted by Penguin 2012-04-20 10:10|| 2012-04-20 10:10|| Front Page Top

#3 done

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-04-20 11:14|| 2012-04-20 11:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Blame the growers all you want but if there weren't a market they wouldn't be growing it.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2012-04-20 12:44|| 2012-04-20 12:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Quite right. If drug-prohibition ended we could get people a decent product that would harm them less AND make such criminals lost funding.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-04-20 12:47|| 2012-04-20 12:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Well DC, the same could be said for child p0rnography. And I'm not against all drugs, but I am against heroin. Especially when the profits go to murderous thugs like the Taliban.

Posted by Penguin 2012-04-20 13:45|| 2012-04-20 13:45|| Front Page Top

#7 A strange argument as drugs only risk harming the taker, like sports etc.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-04-20 13:48|| 2012-04-20 13:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Eradicate libertarianism: legalize dope.

Posted by Pappy 2012-04-20 14:42|| 2012-04-20 14:42|| Front Page Top

#9 taking the drug harms the taker, the proffits from drugs often go to violent gangs and criminals and that harms the people they directly victimize. the users of the drugs often resort to crime to feed their habit harming innocents completely outside the production/consumption loop. chronic users prioritize the drug use above feeding their children, harming them in the process. not to mention the 'missing mama' while she is out high and her boyfriend raping the little girl (happens).

yup - just like sports.

Posted by abu do you love 2012-04-20 14:47|| 2012-04-20 14:47|| Front Page Top

#10 We long ago should have napalmed the fields.. Oh yeah then the grift would be lost...

Posted by linker 2012-04-20 14:55|| 2012-04-20 14:55|| Front Page Top

#11 As the rules of society are set up, heroin use hurts more than just the taker.

Posted by Penguin 2012-04-20 15:04|| 2012-04-20 15:04|| Front Page Top

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