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Frustrated by government attacks on their opium poppy crops, a growing number of farmers in Afghanistan are turning to a lucrative alternative that is just as illegal: cannabis, the source of marijuana and hashish.
In southern Kandahar province, farmers in nearly three-quarters of the villages recently surveyed by the United Nations said they would plant cannabis this spring.
"The foreigners don't complain about cannabis like they do about poppies. So the government doesn't do anything about it," farmer Mukthar says.
Such thinking has led to a boom in cannabis cultivation in the country. In a report earlier this month, the United Nations declared Afghanistan not only the top opium supplier in the world, but one of the biggest cannabis suppliers as well.
Read the entire article, and watch the audio slideshow of farmers producing hashish, here: National Public Radio
In southern Kandahar province, farmers in nearly three-quarters of the villages recently surveyed by the United Nations said they would plant cannabis this spring.
"The foreigners don't complain about cannabis like they do about poppies. So the government doesn't do anything about it," farmer Mukthar says.
Such thinking has led to a boom in cannabis cultivation in the country. In a report earlier this month, the United Nations declared Afghanistan not only the top opium supplier in the world, but one of the biggest cannabis suppliers as well.
Read the entire article, and watch the audio slideshow of farmers producing hashish, here: National Public Radio