CBC - The Passionate Eye - Afghanistan's Opium Tra

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CBC - The Passionate Eye

Afghanistan's Opium Trail

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Type.................: documentary

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Part Size............: 15,000,000 bytes

Number of Parts......: 43

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In bleak Afghan villages, the lure of opium cultivation is clear. With no

other viable alternative for farmers and no effective law enforcement by the

Afghan police, growing poppies is the only way for locals to feed their hungry

families. It is this opium that is sold to drug barons and their envoys,

processed into heroin and then smuggled across borders.



In ever-increasing quantities, Afghanistan is flooding the world with heroin,

supplying over 90 per cent of opium to the world market. Most startling is the

effect on the country's youth, since the majority of Afghanistan's growing

number of heroin addicts are under the age of 20. It is a problem that is

further destabilizing the country by undermining tribal structures and

traditions. In this shocking documentary, Afghanistan's Opium Trail takes

viewers for a ride on the drug caravan-from cultivation, to process, to market-

and lifts the curtain on the hidden world of the drug barons



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