Sweet! I’d like to be able to find more opium around here and increasing the production will help.
I find it hard to believe there’s farmers in Iraq. Isn’t that whole country a desert?
Initial planting in fertile land west and south of Diwaniya around the towns of Ash Shamiyah, al-Ghammas and Shinafiyah were said to have faced problems because of the extreme heat and humidity. Al-Malaf Press says that it has learnt that the experiments with opium poppy-growing in Diyala have been successful.
Although opium has not been grown in many of these areas in Iraq in recent history, some of the earliest written references to opium come from ancient Iraq. It was known to the ancient Sumerians as early as 3400BC as the "Hul Gil" or "joy plant" and there are mentions of it on clay tablets found in excavations at the city of Nippur just east of Diwaniyah.
fertile crescent much?
they also grow large amounts of marijuana because it feels good.
yea nothing ever grows in Iraq
Yea, the whole middle east is nothing but sand dunes.
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