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Drugs tests are to be offered to all Italian MPs and senators from tomorrow in a bid to prove their parliament is not an ‘opium smoking den’.
The testing of Italy’s serving politicians is not obligatory and has been promoted by Carlo Giovanardi, a...
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It was a heated debate during the Bush administration: What to do about evidence that Afghanistan’s powerful defense minister was involved in drug trafficking?...
made popular Aug 28 2009
Targeting Afghan drug lords as part of the war on terror is a strategy that can best be described as better late than never. This is because drug money, rooted in the...
made popular Aug 19 2009
SARAB, Afghanistan - Open the door to Islam Beg’s house and the thick opium smoke rushes out into the cold mountain air, like steam from a bathhouse. It’s...
made popular Aug 10 2009
For as long as anyone can remember, there was no need for paper money in this remote corner of the Hindu Kush. The common currency was what grew in everyone’s...
made popular Aug 4 2009
A friend has a great story about Englishman James Brett and his one-man mission to convert Afghanistan’s poppy fields into a pomegranate cash crop. In 2007, he...
made popular Dec 23 2008
The area of poppy production in Afghanistan and the yield of opium from these crops have reduced this year compared with 2007, a UN report says
made popular Aug 26 2008
Afghanistan, the world’s biggest producer of heroin and opium, is battling drug addiction. 2005 UN figures disclose one million addicts among 30 million people....
made popular Jun 26 2008
Afghanistan’s opium trade funds the arms, ammunition, and military operations of the Taleban who made an estimated $100m (£50m) in 2007 from Afghan poppy farmers by...
made popular Jun 27 2008
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In this March, 1999 file photo, Myanmar soldiers and civilians use sticks to cut the opium poppies in a jungle field in Shan State, northeast of Myanmar. Rising prices for opium in Southeast Asia and the global economic downturn may trigger a surge in...
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