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Poppies for Peace: Reforming Afghanistan's Opium Industry
- The Washington Quarterly
- The MIT Press
- Volume 30, Number 1, Winter 2006-07
- pp. 69-81
- Article
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Afghanistan, which could be slipping back into chaos, must turn the tables on the opium crisis. The international community should establish a pilot project and investigate a licensing scheme to legalize the production of medicines such as morphine and codeine from poppy crops to help it escape.