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Get Set for Another Record Opium Crop

Jacob Sullum | 3.7.2007 3:52 PM


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.

Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason.

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