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Get Set for Another Record Opium Crop

Jacob Sullum | 3.7.2007 3:52 PM

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The latest U.N. estimates indicate that Afghanistan's opium crop this year may exceed last year's, which set an all-time record. How we'll know for sure: if former drug czar Barry McCaffrey claims Afghanistan's opium production has been cut in half.

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Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason. He is the author, most recently, of Beyond Control: Drug Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives (Prometheus Books).

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