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Eighty to 90 percent of the world's poppy, opium and heroin, comes out of Afghanistan.
Ancient medical texts from Egypt, Asia and the Middle East all describe early anesthetics containing things like opium poppy, mandrake fruit, and alcohol.
Starving farmers, if unassisted, may return to cultivating a very reliable cash crop: the opium poppy, long a staple of the warlord economy.
That, at least, was the idea behind a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded poppy eradication program in Afghanistan.
Fighting poppy and/or coca production, on the other hand, is an ideal political stance for politicians.
These NGOs, who flourished during the fight against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, had seen their funding dry up after Russia’s withdrawal, so funds for fighting poppy seemed a gift from heaven.
Mullah Aukhundzada became so angry and humiliated when the promised goodies failed to materialize, that he ordered all the former poppy producing areas, as well as surrounding areas, to double poppy production the following year.
Another bitter irony was that, in areas that received assistance, neighboring farmers who cultivated food crops soon switched to cultivating poppy because then, too, could then qualify for aid.
Meanwhile, acreage used for poppy and marijuana production has risen, according to the US government, to 6,900 and 8,900 hectares, respectively.
In September, the United Nations Office on Drugs Crime announced that poppy cultivation soared by a record-high 60%.
A system in which poppy is cultivated under license for the production of pain-killing medicines such as morphine and codeine would allow farmers to pursue their traditional livelihood and way of life, and, more importantly, to feed themselves and their families.
Because of the serious threat that the illegal drug economy poses to stability and democracy in Afghanistan, we must start thinking in terms of regulated poppy growing for medical purposes, in particular for painkillers, with the active participation of donor countries and the UN itself.
Success will also require more funds for reconstruction, development, and alternatives to opium poppy cultivation.
At the end of that forum, UN member states adopted a political declaration that mandated the UN Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) "to develop strategies with a view to eliminating or significantly reducing the illicit cultivation of the coca bush, the cannabis plant, and the opium poppy by the year 2008."
Phoebus again profited by the opportunity to impress upon her beautiful bent neck a kiss which made the young girl straighten herself up as scarlet as a poppy.