Narcotecture

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the solution to the drug problem can be found in legalization not in sending hordes of DEA agents to drug producing country as Obama is planning to do. Decades of failure, an incarceration rate that has skyrocketed, and hundreds of billions of dollars in wasted treasure trying to enforce what should be treated as a health issue is the proof. Remove the $$$ from the equation and the violence and narcotecture goes "poof".

From a freelance journalist in Afghanistan writing for True Slant...

Here in Kabul, the poor live in unimaginably squalid conditions and the rich live like kings. Kings in very ugly castles.

We call them Poppy Palaces or Narcotecture, because much of the money that went into building them came from Afghanistan’s biggest crop.

You can see these monstrosities all over town and I’ve photographed a few of the worst for your viewing pleasure. Note the really high walls and metal armor on some of them.