AP sources: US debating payoffs to poppy growers

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is considering whether to pay off Afghan farmers to stop them from growing heroin poppies on contract for the Taliban, senior officials said Tuesday....

By ANNE GEARAN

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Well...yeah! A one time payment isn't going to do squat. And sending in reinforcements to police the farmers is going to cost more money...and so on, and so on...

The war on drugs = huge waste of money.