....PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING FROM AOL NEWS.......THIS IS ONE OF THE MANY REASONS THAT WE NEED TO LEGALIZE DRUGS...THE HIGH PRICES INCREASES THE PRODUCTION...AND KEEPING IT ILLEGAL IS WHY THE PRICES REMAIN HIGH.......AND WHY THERE IS SO MUCH CRIME. THIS CRIME IS BROUGHT TO YOU COMPLIMETNS OF THE AMERICAN OR WORLD WIDE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.....A recent surge in opium prices could encourage Afghan farmers to expand cultivation of the narcotic crop and reverse advances in the fight against drug production in the war-torn country, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime warned today.
The UNODC said a blight that cut poppy production by half in 2010 and continuing military operations in Afghanistan have spawned uncertainty about future cultivation and speculation that there will be shortages, which has led opium prices to soar.
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Afghan villagers tend to opium poppies in Helmand province in April 2007. A U.N. report said a drop in opium output in Afghanistan has caused the value to soar."The market responded to the steep drop in opium production with an equally dramatic jump in the market price to more than double 2009 levels," UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov said. "If this cash bonanza lasts, it could effectively reverse the hard-won gains of recent years."
Opium prices had steadily declined from 2005 through 2009, as the United States led an international campaign against Afghan's opium production.
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