Well, actually that just ain’t so either.
Afghan opium is still being made into the heroin that
floods American and European
markets.
In fact, 92 percent of the world’s opium supply now
comes from Afghanistan.
Half the country’s farmers are involved.
The street value of this heroin is somewhere
between 30 and 80 billion dollars, per year.
Of that, about $2.3 billion gets to Afghan farmers and
smugglers.
That is more than half the
country’s national income.
