With Afghanistan being the primary producer of opium (the raw ingredient to make heroin), issues are prone to come up as the season for the drug, from December to May continues. A local Afghan farmer near Kandahar was recently arrested for possession of about 108 kilograms of opium, in which he eluded “all the people” were producing as a mean of income. Drugs are a major problem contributing to the on-going issues in Afghanistan as it is a primary funder of terrorism and other major issues the country faces. Unfortunately, with the amount of poverty currently in Afghanistan, it gives poor farmers a strong and convenient incentive to join the production of the illegal substance. This is certainly a big issue in relation to Canadian troops in Afghanistan as it directly funds the organization in which our troops are trying to stop. On top of this, increase of drug production is a multiplier effect for a large portion of the rest of the crime in the area because it creates more violence and corruption within the already war-torn country as it stands. Although there was a 48% plunge in opium production last year mainly due to a plant disease that ravaged crops, this can make the situation much worse as the resource becomes more scarce. This is directly correlated to a simple supply and demand because as the supply decrease, the prise increases making users of the drug do much more to find the money to support their habit.
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