Afghan's opium war, the other war

Afghanistan produces twice as much heroin as the entire world produced 10 years ago. Consumption of opiates in the EU topped all last year, and drugs kill 10 thousand people in Europe annually. IPS Fellow Sanho Tree joins Priya Sridhar, he is the director of the Drug Policy Project, which works to end the domestic and international "War on Drugs" and replace it with policies that promote public health and safety, as well as economic alternatives to the prohibition drug economy. He says that the worst thing the US Military could do right now is forced eradication because the farmers will turn to illicit crops to feed their families.