Monday, April 05, 2010
Occupation achievements
""While other countries have even larger cannabis cultivation, the astonishing  yield of the Afghan cannabis crop -- 145 kilograms per hectare of hashish, the  resin produced from cannabis, as compared to around 40 kilograms per hectare in  Morocco -- makes Afghanistan the world's biggest producer of hashish,  estimated at between 1,500 and 3,500 tons a year," said Antonio Maria  Costa, UNODC's executive director, in a report issued at the agency's  headquarters in Vienna, Austria."....."All drugs in Afghanistan, whether opium or cannabis, are taxed by  those who control the territory,  providing an additional source of revenue for insurgents," (thanks Redouane)