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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9534
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/drugs

Call for Afghan poppy crop to be turned into legal products

Brussels, 30/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - In the plenary session in Strasbourg on Thursday 25 October, the European Parliament adopted the report by Italian Radical Marco Cappato, calling on the Council to examine the possibility of using part of the considerable illicit Afghan production of opium to produce legal and affordable analgesics, particularly for use in developing countries which lack such medicines. The aim is to control poppy production which sustains 10% of the Afghan population,...

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