Afghanistan Heroin Trade

Amritsar: India's Heroin Capital (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Afghanistan Heroin Trade, India Drugs, Amritsar Drug Problem, Drug War, Pakistan, Heroin India, Drug, Drugs, Afghanistan, War on Drugs, Amritsar, Heroin, Amritsar Drug, Video, World News

Al Jazeera's Prerna Suri reports on the devastating effects of drugs in one of India's most holy cities, Amritsar. The city, home to the Golden Templ...

Read Whole Story

General McChrystal and His "Retail War"

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan Heroin Trade, Afghanistan, Nato, Stanley McChrystal, Heroin-Addicts, Taliban, Heroin, Dick Cheney, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, World News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

If we're going to label the Taliban in the Helmand valley "terrorists," then we might as well label the government that works with them to collect taxes from poppy farmers insurgents.

Read Post

Obama Must End the War on Drugs -- or Mexico and Afghanistan Will Collapse

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan Narco State, Afghanistan Drugs, Afghanistan Heroin Trade, Mexico Drug War, Afghanistan, Mexico, Mexico Drugs, Drugs, War on Drugs, Afghanistan Opium, Mexico Drug Violence, Mexico Drug Wars, Drug Policy, Politics News
Johann Hari

We now have a chance to bankrupt the Mexican cartels, the Taliban, the Bloods and the Crips, and the gangs that are shooting their way across world -- before they cause the collapse of two countries.

Read Post

Reports Link Afghanistan President's Brother To Heroin Trade

New York Times | James Risen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Heroin Trade, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan Heroin Trade, Afghanistan, Ahmed Karzai, Politics News

When Afghan security forces found an enormous cache of heroin hidden beneath concrete blocks in a tractor-trailer outside Kandahar in 2004, the local ...

Read Whole Story