Banking service chronicle Monthly Magazine by bsc academy-subscribe published this article page no 1 the worldwide illicit drugs business is by far the most profitable illicit global trade says the united nations office on drugs and crime (unodc) earning some $320 billion annually. compared to this human trafficking at $32 billion and illegal firearms at $1 billion are a drop in the bucket. afghanistan producing 92% of the worlds illegal opium from its miles and miles of poppy farms is by far the worlds largest contributor to the production of illicit heroin and morphine. for millions of addicts around the world the dark force from afghanistan that rules their lives can only be overcome through drug rehab. not surprisingly no one has come up with a workable idea on how to stop it. the problem is that the chain of narcodollars reaches from the poppy farms all the way to the highest levels of afghanistans government with the taliban insurgents in the mix in a very big way. at $3.1 billion the opium trade is the equivalent of a third of the countrys total economy. last years 6100 tons of opium was worth $60 billion at street prices and this year an even larger crop is expected banking service chronicle monthly magazine buy.
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