ThinkProgress Logo

Politics

“Afghanistan’s opium harvest this year

has reached the highest levels ever recorded, showing an increase of almost 50 percent from last year,” the U.N. announced yesterday, describing the figures as “alarming” and “very bad news.”

By clicking and submitting a comment I acknowledge the ThinkProgress Privacy Policy and agree to the ThinkProgress Terms of Use. I understand that my comments are also being governed by Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, or Hotmail’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policies as applicable, which can be found here.

ThinkProgress Signup Overlay Skip and Continue to ThinkProgress Skip and Continue to ThinkProgress

Sign Up