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Illicit drugs : world's largest producer of opium; cultivation of opium poppy - used to make heroin - doubled to 61,000 hectares in 2003, despite eradication; potential opium production of 2,865 metric tons; source of hashish; many narcotics-processing labs throughout the country; drug trade is a source of instability and some government groups profit from the trade; 80-90% of the heroin consumed in Europe comes from Afghan opium; vulnerable to narcotics money laundering through informal financial networks
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