Afghan junkies risk triggering AIDS explosion

World | 206774 hits | Sep 14 10:22 pm | Posted by: putz

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghanistan's reputation as the world's leading narcotics supplier is well-known, but in a squalid ruin in Kabul, the country hides a darker secret -- a huge home grown drug addiction problem now on the brink of fueling an HIV

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by putz
Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:56 am
This really doesn't amaze me. The national past time there seems to be Soccer and drugs,be it heroin, dope, "homemade" Naswar.
by Guy_Fawkes
Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:15 pm
Huh, I thought it was against Islamic law to do hard drugs?
by raydan
Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:26 pm
"Guy_Fawkes" said
Huh, I thought it was against Islamic law to do hard drugs?

Afghanistan has always been a major narcotics supplier -- responsible for 95 percent of the world's heroin -- although this was scaled back under the rule of the Taliban, which outlawed poppy cultivation and imposed strict penalties for drug users.

It was, but seems the Taliban have other things to do now.
by Choban
Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:38 pm
Even under the Taliban they were responsible for the maority of the Heroin in the world. War brings poverty and poverty brings the desire to escape day to day life, it's a cycle that's been in place there for as longs as heroin has been in demand.
The Taliban while outwardly having laws agains cultivation profited from heroin sales to outside sources, now that they aren't in control theres more heroin use in Afghanistan because the locals don't fear the penalties as much now as they did then.

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