Hmmm, why are
you citing wikipedia all of the sudden, douche?
Yes, you are right. What is correct is that
the amount of land currently used for growing opium in Afghanistan exceeds the total amount of land currently being used in Columbia, Bolivia and Peru to grow cocoa.
http://www.unodc.org/newsletter/en/p...3/page007.html
I remembered a metafilter post I scanned over the other day a bit wrong. I should know better than to try and do rapid-posting when I'm busy. I swear I knew I should've checked it before I even posted the remark, but that's how it goes some time in the inter-netting.
Here you go, knucklehead:
The
amount of
Afghan land used for
growing opium is now larger than the combined total under coca cultivation in Latin America - Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. No other country has produced narcotics on such a deadly scale since
China in the 19 th century. Opium in Afghanistan:
Eradicate or subsidize?
http://www.metafilter.com/65599/geop...-of-opium-2007