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Re:Afghanistan: The Making of a Narco State by e12e on Sunday December 07, 2014 @02:09AM (#8711539)
If we can't prevent farmes to grow poppies when it's "illegal" to do so, what's to prevent farmers from taking money to "not grow" and still grow opium?

I suppose, if one buys into the idea that this is mostly the result of a free marked (as opposed to an intricate web of political, economic and organized violent crime) -- one could offer to pay opium prices for food crops. But then you'd probably have to destroy that food, in order to prevent people from selling the food back, and collecting double payments on "not growing poppies"...

Re:Afghanistan: The Making of a Narco State by nraynaud on Sunday December 07, 2014 @03:27AM (#8711672)
And buying wheat or whatever that they need time and effort to produce from them at a golden price? (I don't know, I'm just sending a random idea)