A Dirty Shame – US Drug Policy in Afghanistan

Afghanistan has agreed to poppy-spraying measures in a desperate bid to deflate the soaring drugs trade, America's anti-narcotics tsar announced at the weekend.

The move was urgently needed to prevent Afghanistan becoming a narco-state, said John Waters, the head of the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy. "We cannot fail in this mission." - The Guardian

The US tends to be a serial cry-baby about the drug trade but this latest move will be an even more embarrassing failure than usual.

The laughable failure of the US to control the drug flow even in our own prisons doesn’t stop the bold moves of declaring war on crops around the world. The opium trade is about 50% of the GDP of Afghanistan and the US has no ideas for alternatives to make up for it.

We addressed this earlier: Record Opium Crop

Eliminating supply drives up the price of the crop and the incentive to produce it. In other words the more the US can destroy, the better off they make the drug traffickers.

Potential spray victims may want to buy stock in Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, whose chemical Roundup is going to be used to destroy their property.