Afghanistan on verge of becoming Narcotic state

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/0...s.ap/index.html

The country's illicit opium/heroin production "can be viewed, for all practical purposes, as the rough equivalent of world illicit heroin production," the report said, and "it represents an enormous threat to world stability."

 

Afghanistan's opium production of 4,950 metric tons dwarfed that of second-place Myanmar by 17 times. Some 40-60 percent of Afghanistan's GDP is attributed to narcotics, the report found.