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Originally Posted by TheNorm
No, the source of the problem is demand. Not supply.
If all poppy fields in Afghanistan were destroyed tonight, do you really think the drug problem in Britain would come to an end?
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No, the drug problem would not come to an end. The problem would not be as widespread though if these countries had been stopped from cultivating it in the beggining.
Hard drugs have never been so cheap, this is due to supply and demand. The vast amount of drugs produced by these countries have made the price affordable.
I was never offered hard drugs when I was younger, and I believe this was due to cost, in the past 12 months I have been offered hard drugs 'To try' on more than one occassion. I believe this is due to the fact that they are cheap enough to offer around to others like people do with fags.
The 14% if true means there are probably about 4.5 million people in Afghanistan alone involved in drug cultivation and trafficking, I dont know if they are counting the Pakistanis that are coming over the border for the poppy fields now the majority of Taliban have been killed.
If you speak to soldiers coming back from a tour in Afghanistan my experience is that they say that now they are fighting Pakistanis and many are coming over the border for the drugs.
Of course this
may be fact but it is far easier to brush it aside as a racist comment.