Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Have GSK found a new opium dealer?



These two stories (here and here) would seem to suggest that the legal trade in opium may be moving from growers in Tasmania to those in Afghanistan.

Opium is the base used for making the painkillers morphine and diamorphine (given the brandname Heroin by Bayer).

Insider loves this quote:

"It is a pipe dream to believe that the goal of the reconstruction of Afghanistan will be achieved by using force against Afghan poppy farmers," !

A pipe dream indeed!

Judging by these two pictures the Afghan crop looks much healthier!

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