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Johan Ordonez / AFP - Getty Images
A police officer shows a poppy flower during an operation to destroy a plantation in Tuinima village, Tajumulco nunicipality, San Marcos departament, 315 km northeast of Guatemala City, near the border with Mexico, on Wednesday.
Johan Ordonez / AFP - Getty Images
A soldier takes part in an operation to destroy a poppy plantation in Tuinima village.
Most of the images of poppy cultivation (and destruction) we see are from Afghanistan. See this series about opium previously in PhotoBlog, and this piece about security forces burning opium.
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The poppy flowers look kind of pretty I would have some in my flower bed if I could get them. I guess growing food isn't to important to these people. They know what they are doing. Besides Poppy's being used as ornaments or production to make opium what else are they good for? How do they get pollinated? Cut off the source for pollination and that should put a big dent in the capability to mass produce them for drug production.
Hmmm? Shall we make war on Bees now?
All the money we spend on fighing dope...we should just shoot the dopers and their pushers on the streets.
Combine killing street pusher with free clinics for people to go get high, then eventually the mafia will go out of business. Really, billions wasted on fighting a drug war, just admit that there will be dopers, give them legal place to get high with clean dope and if they break these UBER Liberal Rules, just kill them.
With 7 billion people on the Earth, we will not miss some dopers.
Flowers are pretty, but poisonous.
Uhhhhhhh. Where's the beef ? 2 pictures and no story ? WTF ?
send some americans to deal directly with the land owners, if we are going to spend american tax dollars in an effort to stop the growth of these plants we need people to deal directly with the people who depend on the crops, get corn or some other seed to the land owners and line up a market/buyer for the new crops and this would make a real diffrence. giving money to corrupt goverment officials doesnt work. the money doesnt make it to the farmers hand. deal directly with farmers like we do here in america, greed is a very hard thing to just set aside, like in america were senate seats are for sale and the few very rich use terrorist threats to get there dirty works done and shock the american public into wars with alerts and scares of terror in the usa are a farce, americans can take care of them selves by keeping an eye out here at home. i can tell you whats on the news a week ahead of time because its the same stuff, we dont hear about this UFO sightings like the arizona sighting in 97, trade center deal looks like these towers were made of pop cycle sticks, and building 7 @!$%# this was a joke how in the world did this building happen to fall just like the towers?? but the higher ups the rich got what they wanted iraq? anyway this whole terror thing stinks to high heaven, the american people need to wake up soon, turn your tv off and look around. Obama isnt our leader the builderburgs, rothchilds and the rest of the filty rich are running everything for this so called NWO new world order deal, america read the The
Prayer in the First Congress, A.D. 1774 its an eye opener, this shows how far we have fallen, and when we do the end is always the same, history tells the whole story. wake up ya all. DC