http://registan.net/index.php/2008/10/12/some-more-thoughts-on-opium/ Central Asia News -- All Central Asia, All The Time Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:53:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://registan.net/index.php/2008/10/12/some-more-thoughts-on-opium/comment-page-1/#comment-378596 komik Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:09:20 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2008/10/12/some-more-thoughts-on-opium/#comment-378596 Still, the other “institutional” advantages of opium — e.g. access to contract farming arrangements and credit from traffickers — remain, and the key aim of alternative livelihoods programs should be to provide the same services and risk reduction measures for legal crops that the traffickers do for opium. “Legal opium” as advocated by Hitchens and others would not automatically have these advantages — and if the Afghan government could provide them for poppy, it could provide them for other crops.thanks good Still, the other “institutional” advantages of opium — e.g. access to contract farming arrangements and credit from traffickers — remain, and the key aim of alternative livelihoods programs should be to provide the same services and risk reduction measures for legal crops that the traffickers do for opium. “Legal opium” as advocated by Hitchens and others would not automatically have these advantages — and if the Afghan government could provide them for poppy, it could provide them for other crops.thanks good

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