Archive for July 7th, 2008

“There was only one catch, and that was Catch-22…”

Travel to a place where sowing narcotics is every townsperson’s career and what do you get?
18,172,517 pounds.
That’s how much opium is produced in Afghanistan a year, responsible for 93% of the world’s supply. Among that, half of it is produced in one area of the country: the wraithlike Helmand Province.
A 58,584 km cosmic desert, [...]

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