"If we arranged for Monsanto to create a unique, sterile, food crop (wheat, for example) with a unique genotype, we could pay Afghan farmers the going rate for opium to grow this instead. Money and food is passed to the Afghan economy and the drug barons are hit where it hurts money - their wallets."The above seems to me to be a good idea.
Apparently, the Afghan poppy producers are paid at subsistence levels for their multi-million dollar crop. See the title link.
Mr Bow seems to have a nice simple solution.
We pay them to do something else; preferably something useful. But even if not, it will still be cheaper and more effective than trying to enforce the unenforceable in a lawless country.
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