General Reta said production of raw opium and marijuana had been reduced by 75 percent.
One day the district chief came to see me and said they had captured a ton of raw opium.
Inside stood a wheelbarrow with a load of brown jelly, raw opium.
Then he covered the bricks with the raw opium.
Much of the land is fertile, but the only major export is the raw opium used in the criminal drug trade.
In 1999, Afghanistan made over 4,581 metric tons of raw and refined opium.
The secret rendering down of the raw opium into base morphine even before it left the hills.
He bought more than 100 pounds of raw opium last year in a weekend, just to show how simple it was.
In the last quarter of the 18th century madak was phased out by raw opium.