Cowlix Wearing my mind on my sleeve

Saturday, January 26, 2002
Afghanistan Opium Ban

Afghanistan's new government has banned opium production, but the farmers and dealers haven't seemed to notice.

Afghan officials haven't dropped by Haji Khudi Noor's dim nook in Kandahar's bustling opium market to order a halt to his business. Foreign aid workers haven't come to tell him how to feed his 35-member family if he did.

Until one -- or both -- happens, Khudi Noor says, opening his brown shawl to reveal a lap piled high with patties of raw opium, Afghanistan's new opium ban will have little force against its new opium boom.

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