Opium

Opium in Afghanistan

It is hard to think that opium plays such a big role in Afghanistan's economy and almost nothing is being done to stop it.  About half of their profits come from making opium and selling it.  Afghanistan is the worlds leading maker of opium.  It makes me sick hearing and seeing little kids smoking opium, and how their parents are showing them how to do it.  It makes you think how are they ever going to fix this problem.  There are little to none places to get help with this drug addiction, and these people live in such harsh areas that it makes it very hard to get to them. 

Another thing that does not help is that the Taliban are the people in control, and it seems like no body can really defeat them, the United States is taking soldiers back home cause they can not help either.  Quite honestly, if the United States can not defeat them or get them to stop, then I do not see any country stopping them in a long time.  It is sad to think how bad the middle of this  country has gotten.  In north Afghanistan it has gotten a lot better because the people stopped making opium and started harvesting wheat.  If the rest of the country could see how bad opium has gotten, I think this country could thrive in the future.