• Afghanistan Cannabis Survey

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  Apr 15

  On April fools day the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime released the Afghanistan Cannabis Survey just to let the world know, or at least anyone paying attention, that there’s more than just Opium flowing out of Afghanistan. Every day since the survey was released there’s been stories in the media about the bumper crop of cannabis grown in Afghanistan this year. Now people are realizing that the world’s top producer of opium is also handy at growing weed and making great hash. Since 2006 they’ve bumped Morocco out of that top spot for Hash production. Well they should be good hash makers, since they’ve been practicing for hundreds of years, it’s sad and shameful that they can’t proudly compete in the Amsterdam Cannabis Cup with their great products, instead they get bullied.
  The Afghanistan Cannabis Survey estimates the amount of Hash to be 3,500 tons worth approximately $94 Million USD. First off, just for conversation sake, that’s just under $13.50 per pound which is very lousy for the producer considering the best discount price to be $10 per gram with over 453 grams in a pound for the equivalent of $4,530 on the street in Europe or America, this makes one of the best profit margins of any commodity grown anywhere. However, $27,000 is allot of cake for a ton of hash, is there a commodity exchange? Do they hire brokers? Can it be bought FOB?
  The thought of all that hashish being created inside a war-zone has made me curious about how it get’s to market and if history has repeated itself where the U.S. Military has gotten involved in the transportation and black-market trading of all that non-taxable, non-traceable cash generating commodity? Guess we’ll just have to wait for the Hollywood mockumentary “Air Afghanistan” by the spin doctors at the department of mis-information, hopefully Oliver North can make a cameo. It’s always easier to make a movie of any serious criminal allegations involving the military or U.S. Government.

  
  In terms of growing and producing 3,500 tons of hashish the same UN report cited that 10,000 to 24,000 hectares of cannabis are grown in Afghanistan every year and that this is used to make an estimated 1,500 to 3,500 tons of hashish annually. Just think of the industry is takes to create that many tons of hash, this is a more serious proposition than growing corn and then producing your own nacho chips. It takes more than a cottage industry to produce 3,500 tons of hash in fact the number of cannabis growing households in 2009 was estimated at 40,000 households. Based on this calculation the number of households involved in cannabis cultivation ranges between 25,000 and 60,000. Income from cannabis Based on prices at the time of resin extraction (January 2010) and the average resin yield of 2009, farmers could achieve a gross cash income per hectare of US$ 3,890/ha (rounded US$ 3,900/ha) from cannabis resin. This is slightly more than the gross income from opium was in 2009 (US$ 3,600/ha). The gross income from cannabis resin does not take into account the potential value of cannabis by-products such as cannabis seeds, stalks or even homemade hashish.
  The Afghanistan Cannabis Survey provides all the information you need to know about the growing of marijuana and the production of hashish in Afghanistan. It’s the first such survey and very scientific in it’s approach, every detail of how the information is collected is explained and lot’s of maps, charts, photos and satellite pictures are included to explain details of how and why cannabis is a summer crop in all the farms where opium is a winter crop. Fascinating descriptions of how the cannabis is sieved and then sold and that often times it’s the exporters who have the equipment and resources to make the hash. Even the locations of the cannabis resin “garda” markets where the pollen is sold. This report provides an amazing insight into the world of cannabis farming and hash production in Afghanistan.
  Make sure you read the Afghanistan Cannabis Survey

  
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