The British Crown looks forward to unprecedented profits from the heroin trade in Afghanistan, reports the UK Guardian

The poppy harvest in a British-controlled area of Southern Afghanistan called Helmand province will double this year keeping the Crown's coffers overflowing with loot from the global narcotics market.

"The Afghanistan province being patrolled by British troops will produce at least a third of the world's heroin this year, according to drug experts who are forecasting a record harvest that will be an embarrassment for the western-funded war on narcotics," reports the Guardian.
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0%2C%2C1796794%2C00.html)

"Early indications show an increase on Helmand's 1999 record of 45,000 hectares (112,500 acres) and a near-doubling of last year's crop.

Despite spending $2 billion on the phony war on drugs since 2001, poppy cultivation will produce a bumper crop this year

"Afghanistan produces almost 90% of the world's heroin, with about a third coming from Helmand.