Afghan Narcotics Trade & Organized Crime

The occupation forces in Afghanistan are supporting the drug trade, which brings between 120 and 194 billion dollars of revenues to organized crime, intelligence agencies and Western financial institutions. The proceeds of this lucrative multi-bllion dollar contraband are deposited in Western banks. Almost the totality of revenues accrue to corporate interests and criminal syndicates outside Afghanistan.
According to the UN, In 2006 Afghanistan supplied some 92 percent of the world's supply of opium, which is used to make heroin. The drugs cultivated in Afghanistan are shipped to buyers throughout the globe helping fund and empower organized crime. Even legitimate American companies are known buyers of Afghan opium, which is used to make certain kinds of pharmaceutical drugs.
Afghan opium "is sold to licensed pharmaceutical and/or chemical manufacturing firms such as Mallinckrodt and Johnson & Johnson, under rules established by the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the International Narcotics Control Board.
With the war on terror still ongoing in Afghanistan, it will be difficult to stop the narcotics trade because opium is the main export and only means of income for many Afghan civilians.