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War is Good for Business and Organized Crime: Afghanistan’s Multibillion Dollar Opium Trade. Rising Heroin Addiction in the US
GlobalResearch, Dec. 31, 2018
Afghanistan’s opium economy is a multibillion dollar operation which has a direct impact on the surge of heroin addiction in the US.
The Afghan opium trade continues to flourish. It is protected by US-NATO occupation forces on behalf of a nexus of powerful financial and criminal interests.
Today a rough estimate based on US retail prices suggests that the global heroin market is above the 500 billion dollars mark. This multibillion dollar hike is the result of a significant increase in the volume of heroin transacted worldwide coupled with a moderate increase in retail prices.
Based on the most recent (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC) data (2017) opium production in Afghanistan is of the order of 9000 metric tons, which after processing and transformation is equivalent to approximately 900,000 kg. of pure heroin.
With the surge in heroin addiction since 2001, the retail price of heroin has increased. According to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) intelligence, one gram of pure heroin was selling in December 2016 in the domestic US market for $902 per gram.
The US-NATO led War against Afghanistan served to Restore the Illicit Heroin trade; the Afghan government’s drug eradication program was repealed.
The war on Afghanistan (2001 to the present) served to restore as well as boost the multibillion dollar drug trade. It has also contributed to the surge in heroin addiction in the US.
Opium production had declined by more than 90 per cent in 2001 as a result of the Taliban government’s drug eradication program. Immediately following the invasion (October 7, 2001) and the occupation of Afghanistan by US-NATO troops, the production of opium reached its historical levels.
Opium production has increased 50 times in relation to 2001, when the areas of opium cultivation had fallen to 8000 hectares (185 metric tons of opium). Now, according to the UNODC, Afghanistan produces (2007) 93% of the illegal “non-pharmaceutical-grade opiates” namely heroin.
The 2017 Afghanistan Opium Survey (released in May 2018) by UNODC confirms that the farm areas allocated to opium now are of the order of 328,000 hectares with opium production in excess of 9,000 tons.
The profits are largely reaped at the level of the international wholesale and retail markets of heroin as well as in the process of money laundering in Western banking institutions.
The global monetary value of the heroin market (which is protected by powerful groups) is colossal.
Using the US retail price equivalent of pure heroin (DEA), the global monetary value generated by the Afghan heroin trade (2017) is of the order of $712.58 billion, an amount equivalent to the US defense budget.
Needless to say, the Pentagon not to mention the CIA which launched the opium economy in Afghanistan in the late 1970s are intent upon protecting this multibillion dollar industry.
The proceeds of the Afghan drug trade were initially used to finance the recruitment of Al Qaeda Mujahideen mercenaries to fight in the Soviet-Afghan war.
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