Description
Until the year 2000 Afghanistan was the world’s leading producer of opium. Its cultivation – a means for impoverished farmers to make money, and for Afghanistan’s warring factions – a way to pay for their weapons. Then the ruling Taliban declared opium and its by-product heroin un-Islamic and began publicly destroying the country’s poppy fields. Now with the political upheavals in the country and the on-going war on terror there are fears the poppy fields will soon be flowering again.