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Quote by: Gods_Mercenary  Keeping your troops in contact with a hostile populace is only going to bring about atrocities on your side, which is going to create more terrorists, which is going to make atrocities, both real and invented, more likely, limiting contact with native people is the best way to go. The poppy crop could also be a boon for afghanistan, if sold to pharmaceutical companies to meke legal drugs, a potentially lucrative business for the afghans, but instead, this resource is destroyed, only making sure that the farmers do make it into illegal drugs. |
Actually there are some Alberta farmers and marketers who were on the news last night (CTV I believe) who were trying to bring the poppy over here to our country, due to the limited amount of companies who are around to distribute the chemicals required for most of our medicines... having it closer here in North America, would most likly reduce our cost on medicine, persciptions, etc.
They were also talking about a method so that they can just produce what is required for our medicines without having to worry about producing the chemicals required for heroin.