It is a shame to see the US governement collaborating with the opium producers because they are helping them in searching for the elusive Al Qaeda members. What was that word!!! oh yes, Hypocrisy.
NEW AFGHAN THREAT](http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-12793570,00.html)
There are worries that large amounts of heroin could be heading for Britain after a bumper poppy harvest in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is the world’s biggest producer of opium, which is used to make heroin.
There has been a massive resurgence in production since the end of the Taliban regime.
Sky’s Keith Graves travelled to the village of Sor Khab in the Logar province, a two-hour drive from the Afghan capital Kabul, to see a drug-producing area.
Foreign journalists are not allowed into such areas during production, but local cameramen have filmed poppies being harvested.
He said that after a good year for farmers, between 3,000 - 4,000 tonnes of opium are available to be refined into heroin worth more than $1bn.
The crop provides more than 30% of the local economy, meaning it is no surprise that the authorities do nothing to stop production, he said.
Sor Khab is a three-day walk from Pakistan, from where the heroin reaches Asia and the rest of the world.
A local western drug enforcement agent said that the drug production in the country poses as big a problem to the world as terrorism.
**Graves reports that Washington turns a blind eye rather than trying to halt production as local warlords, who govern areas, are helping with the search for terrorists. **
The season is now over and the next year’s poppy crop will be planted in a couple of months.
Until then, marijuana is being grown in its place.
Meanwhile, Sky News also showed how easy it is to buy heroin on the streets of London.
An undercover reporter took around an hour to buy a small amount of heroin for £20.