Afghanistan’s opium production jumps by nearly 50 percent: UN

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KABUL - Afghanistan’s opium production will increase by nearly 50 percent this year to a record 6,100 tonnes after an “alarming” jump in cultivation in the lawless south, the UN drugs office announced on Saturday.

The area of land planted with opium -- of which Afghanistan produces more than 90 percent of world supply -- rose 59 percent this year as compared to last year, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said.

The sharp increase in the number of acres planted would lead to a likely harvest of 6,100 tonnes -- a 49 percent hike over the 4,100 tonnes produced the year before.

“This year’s harvest will be around 6,100 tonnes of opium -- a staggering 92 percent of total world supply. It exceeds global consumption by 30 percent,” UNODC global executive director Antonio Maria Costa said in Kabul.

[magellan]

1. A bumper crop

Mission accomplished.

:sarcasm:

[Webster Green]

2. It never seems to make it to the left coast...

All we get is that crappy Mexican stuff.

Bummer man!:(

[NNN0LHI]

4. It is here in the midwest. Lots of DOAs due to overdoses lately n/t

[smtpgirl]

7. Doesn't the mid-west have meth heads??

question

[NNN0LHI]

8. Yes there is a huge crank problem in the midwest

But I noticed the deaths from heroin overdoses ballooned in this area after Bush invaded and occupied Afghanistan.

Don

[Warpy]

3. Good, we're gonna need the drugs

to keep going in a hopeless society with no healthcare for anyone but the super rich.

[sweetheart]

9. god bless the poor supply chain

The wicked rich make war on the poor again, dressed in the skins of lambs.

For all those persons out there in afganistan working in the criticial supply
of important substances to people who need medication, more power to 'em.

[smtpgirl]

5. At this point in the *ush Administration

I should be in an opium den like Johnny Depp in the movie From Hell,

anything to quell the existence from man!!

[smtpgirl]

6. At this point in the *ush Administration

I should be in an opium den like Johnny Depp in the movie From Hell,

anything to quell the existence from man!!