EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PUSHES FOR AFGHANISTAN OPIUM LEGAL ANALGESICS SCHEME
October 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has asked the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to push the Afghanistan government to create pilot projects for turning illicit poppy production into a source of legal opium-based analgesics. An approved report by Italian liberal MEP Marco Cappato noted: "Insurgents, warlords, the Taliban and terrorist groups are obtaining their major source of funding through trade in illicit narcotics". Indeed UN figures say the country produces 93% of the world's opiates, mostly channeled into illicit drugs. Cappato ...
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