Drugs and Democracy - East Asia

February 2012 Tom Kramer Kevin Woods
China’s opium crop substitution programme has very little to do with providing mechanisms to decrease reliance on poppy cultivation or provide alternative livelihoods for ex-poppy growers. Financing dispossession is not development.
February 2012
Peace does not just involve the government and ethnic armed opposition groups, but involves all of Burma's citizens.
January 2009 Martin Jelsma
The assumption that reducing opium production would lead to less drug use has been proven wrong. It has instead contributed to a pattern of an increased use of stronger drugs and more harmful patterns of use.