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How the DEA Scrubbed Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Poppy Garden from Public Memory

Jim Hogshire, Feral House. March 3, 2010.

Visitors to Monticello don't learn how Jefferson cultivated poppies, and his personal opium use may as well never have happened.

Drug Eradication in Afghanistan a Complete Failure: Top US Military Officer

Agence France PresseMay 21, 2009.

NATO has failed to stem the vast opium trade in Afghanistan that helps finance Taliban insurgents despite an eight-year effort.

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