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Published online 25 June 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070625-2
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Push to legalize Afghanistan's opium trade
Group calls for end of poppy eradication strategy.
Encouraging Afghan villagers to make morphine legally from poppies could help stem the illegal opium trade and free farmers from the clutches of the Taliban, suggests a report released today1.
Afghanistan produces more than 90% of the world's illegal opium.
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