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 | | The area planted with poppies, used to make heroin and morphine, was 152,000 acres in 2003, compared with 76,900 acres in 2002 and 4,210 acres in 2001, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said in a statement. |
 | | Afghanistan produces 75% of the world's opium, says the UN During the 1990s, five or six provinces in Afghanistan were cultivating opium poppy. |
 | | Oil and gas are not the direct causes of the war in Afghanistan, but understanding the motives of long-term US policy towards that country is important. |
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