"This book is about the history of both the legal and illicit drug trade in Afghanistan, and the policies launched by the Afghan government to control the drug trade"-- Provided by publisher.

Colonial and global engagements : Afghan opium on the periphery of the global drug market --The politics of prohibition : how diplomacy with the United States shifted the drug control paradigm in Afghanistan -- The consequences of coercion in Badakhshan : the 1958 prohibition of opium and the issue of culture in drug control policy -- East meets west : hippies, hash, and the globalization of the Afghan drug trade -- The Afghan connection : smuggling, heroin, and Nixon's war on drugs in Afghanistan -- All goods are dangerous goods : development, the global market, and opium in the Helmand Valley, Afghanistan.