KABUL, Afghanistan - Rebuffing months of U.S. pressure, Afghan President Hamid Karzai decided against a Colombia-style program to spray this country’s heroin-producing poppies after the Cabinet worried herbicide would hurt legitimate crops, animals and humans, officials said Thursday
Yeah, someone is geuninely worried about citizens of his country and the actual farmers. The BS continues from barkers.
Afghanistan’s opium poppies should be used to alleviate a shortage of painkillers in the NHS, the British Medical Association has said.
Diamorphine, which is derived from opium poppies and which is also known as heroin, is used to relieve pain after operations. But there is a critical shortage of the drug in Britain, forcing doctors to use more expensive and less effective alternatives.
The BMA’s proposed solution is to use Afghanistan’s opium poppies to produce diamorphine for the NHS.
Dr Vivienne Nathanson, the BMA’s head of science and ethics, told the BBC: “If we actually were harvesting this drug from Afghanistan rather than destroying it, we’d be benefiting the population of Afghanistan as well as helping patients and not putting people at risk.