Afghanistan has become the World's Leading Opium Producer."The threat is definitely there that the country will become a narco-state Noun 1. narco-state - an area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent; "this Mexican town has become a narco-state that ships 100 pounds of cocaine to the United States every day" ." When a UN report claimed that 87 percent of the world's opium opium, substance derived by collecting and drying the milky juice in the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Opium varies in color from yellow to dark brown and has a characteristic odor and a bitter taste. comes from Afghanistan and that income from the drug trade was the equivalent of more than half of the nation's legal domestic product, the UN's director of the Office of Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa Antonio Maria Costa is an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, appointed in May 2002 to the positions of Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV). , concluded only that the nation could become a "narco-state." |
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