Opium in Afghanistan

RECAP
My book of the growth of opium farming was okay but lacked a lot information. If I was to put more statistics I think I would have been better. I had every 3 or so and how much opium was harvested. My book would have been better with a chart that had each years amount of opium harvested and why it went up by that number that year. I learned that Afghanistan produces the most opium. They produced over 8000 metric tons of opium in 2007 and in 1996 they only produced a little over 2000 metric tons. I learned the Taliban tried to stop Afghanistan from farming opium in 2000 and in 2001 the they only produced less than 500 metric tones that year! That's crazy!

REVISIT
In September of 2000 the Talibanbans opium farming. Afghanistan is the leading producer of heroin in the world. In 2001 when Afghanistan couldn't farm opium it raised prices for heroin a little but was not really noticed. But in 2003 the effects were realized.

Now opium farming is down if Afghanistan as of September. it had dropped 22 percent. Now 20 out of 34 Provence in Afghanistan are opium free. Opium this year is now at at the lowest price its been in 10 years. There are now 60 less hecta-achers in Afghanistan that are harvesting opium.

REFLECT

Opium is there main source of income. Its used for heroin and that's wrong but its how people in rural areas in Afghanistan get money. So in my opinion it is fine for them to get the money even though opium harms people and is bad for them. The people are just trying to provide for there families. The government allows the farming because it bring a lot of money to Afghanistan but the government also takes a lot of the money. Not everyone will agree on if it should be legal or not but i think for them it should be.