hmmm, industrial solvents, kerosene, rat poison...sounds like all the stuff that is in commercial American cigarettes.

It's the same muck that's used in making crystal methamphetamine. Cheap, deadly, addictive and will get you high as a kite. It will most likely hit children first then broaden. The 21st Century equivalent to sniffing glue. Let's brace ourselves.

Take a look at who is producing it: "poor women in their kitchens". In a country with 50% unemployment, this is clearly an economic problem that will quickly become a drug problem. The answer is to create jobs. The US should be focusing on supporting the legal economies of Central and South American countries, not on interdiction. As a previous report in Join Together indicated, coca production actually increased by 15% between 2000 and 2006 when we paid Columbia to "cut" its production by 1/2. It is the same all over the world, including Afghanistan. People work in drug production because those are the only jobs available to them, not because the average person profits from it (only the drug companies receive hugh profits). Just as with the US population, the govnt focuses on punishment and destruction instead of treatment of addicts and the building of an economic infrastructure that can support the population.