Dealing with the Afghan poppy trade

Afghanistan is now the world's largest producer of opium, and thereby its greatest source of herion. Eradicating this business should be a priority for the West as it is we that are consuming it, funding it, creating the demand and suffering the ill effects.

One simple experiment is this: get Monsanto (or equivalent) to develop a genetically unique, and sterile, food crop such as wheat. We could then pay Afghan farmers the going rate for opium to grow this instead. Investment and food is then being directed into the Afgan economy and the drug barons are hit where it hurts most - their wallets.