Reply #11: Afghan opium is almost 90% of ILLICIT production. [View All]

[High Plains]

Opium is legally grown under license for the medicinal market in France, Australia, India, and a couple of other places.

A European think tank, the Senlis Council, has proposed licensing the Afghan crop and diverting it into the legitimate medicinal market, but no one really likes that idea. Too reasonable, I suppose.