Conflict In Afghanistan by Katelyn Layne

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The Taliban uses the opium funds, to help continue their existence, from food, clothing, to weapons. The opium trade is roughly half the country's domestic growth.
http://www.cato.org/publications/foreign-policy-briefing/how-drug-war-afgha...

Conflict In Afghanistan

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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DRUG USES

Where drugs can be used to trigger euphoric feelings
They are also used to fund greater means

The Taliban uses the opium funds, to help continue their existence, from food, clothing, to weapons. The opium trade is roughly half the country's domestic growth.
http://www.cato.org/publications/foreign-policy-briefing/how-drug-war-afgha...

Photo by ex_magician

WHY ITS A BIG DEAL

For farmers in Afghanistan,
Farming the cash crop opium
Makes the difference between
Poverty and death

http://www.cato.org/publications/foreign-policy-briefing/how-drug-war-afgha...

Afghanistan alone supplies over 90% of the worlds heroine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/magazine/27AFGHAN-t.html?_r=0

WHO PROFITS FROM THIS

Its not the Taliban alone
Afghanistan officials

Since Afghanistan relies so heavily on the profit from the drug trade, fighting the conflict on drugs is less likely to dissolve. Fighting will not stop.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/magazine/27AFGHAN-t.html?_r=0

HOW I SPEND MY DAY

RESOLUTION

As I said in the slide prior
With the Afghan govt highly
Dependent on the trade, a resolution
Will not be met so easily.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Afghanistan_opium_poppy_...
This shows the cultivation from 1994-2010, and the steady increase.

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Katelyn Layne