WHERE’S CEDRIC DANIELS WHEN YOU NEED HIM?

In a long post about the global wheat shortage’s impact* on Afghanistan, Barnett Rubin slags the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)’s latest assessment of Afghanistan’s drug economy (otherwise known as Afghanistan’s economy).

With a complete deadpan delivery, the same report praises cannabis growing provinces as “poppy free.” Afghan governors who succeed in convincing farmers to grow cannabis, the price of which has jumped, instead of opium poppy, the price of which is falling because of Afghan over-production, are now considered to be counter-narcotics heroes.

Jukin’ the stats!

(*Like most things’ impact on Afghanistan, it is negative.)