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- BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'
- Khaleej Times Online - Focusing on Counternarcoti cs: from the page: "Opium production is only part of the problem. An equally important aspect to this flourishing trade is the trafficking component. That is where the real money comes in. It is a well known fact...that the biggest money in this venture comes from trafficking, with farmers only retaining a fraction of the eventual value of their harvests... Despite the drop in production, eradication itself remains a contentious issue, evoking strong reaction among Afghan farmers, who view it as an attempt to rob them of their livelihood... The proposed change in counternarcoti cs strategy is expected to enlarge funds for alternatives for farmers, in the form of cash crops such as saffron. Besides targeting drug labs, where opium is refined to morphine and heroin, targeting trafficking networks is high on the agenda... In addition, it might be a good idea to also curb inwards trafficking of acetic anhydride, the main agent used to refine of opium into heroin."
- Transtext(e)s transcultures. Journal of Global Cultural Studies
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- 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'
- What a Wife Expects From Her Husband: What a wife expects from her husband. Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate. A successful wife knows that she has left the house of her parents and now she has joined this house where shall be spending the remaining part of her life. Therefore, her shifting fro...
June 28th
- U.S. shifts away from poppy eradication - Washington Times
- Wallabies damaging crops in Tasmania poppy fields after getting high | World news | guardian.co.uk
- Stoned Wallabies creating crop circles - Telegraph: Wallabies have been creating crop circles in Australia after getting as "high as a kite" from eating legally grown opium poppy fields. The marsupials have been breaking into fields in Tasmania, the world's largest producer of legally grown opium for the pharmaceutical market. Lara Giddings, the Tasmanian attorney general, said: "We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles.
June 27th
- U.S. reverses Afghan drug policy| Reuters
- U.S. announces Afghan drug policy shift - msnbc.com @adamcurry
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