In a country awash with weapons and drugs, where the global system of exchange - the currency - had been devalued to such an extent that it has been more lucrative to use opium as a form of barter, Afghanistan has become one of the poorest countries in the world. Yet the most stupendous growth in Afghanistan has been of the Narcotics industry. The irony of the situation in Afghanistan is that it was during the United Nation's decade against drug abuse between ...
