Mon January 19, 2004 09:33 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - The Taliban's attack on Afghan heroin production was the 'most effective' drug control policy of modern times but production soared again after the regime was ousted, researchers said Monday.More from Professor Farrow:
A study showed that a Taliban crackdown in 2001 led to global heroin production falling by two-thirds, said criminologist Professor Graham Farrow of Loughborough University, with production in Taliban-controlled areas falling 99 percent.
It was difficult to draw many lessons from the example, he said, because such measures were not acceptable to western countries.No, in civilized western countries we lock non-violent drug offenders up with violent sociopaths in prisons. No harsh corporal punishment in prisons? Right.
"In free democratic society, harsh corporal punishment for relatively minor drug crimes is not something we want to recommend," he said.
