The world's legal opiate production depends on poppies cultivated in Tasmania with irrigation and gods know what other artificial stimulus. Australia is a highly developed nation which would not do so badly with one cash crop less.

Meanwhile the Afghanis have been cultivating poppies from the creation. They know their stuff and they need the work. Illegal cultivation of poppies is one of the major sources of funding for insurgents and warlords alike.

Could we just transfer the legal opiate franchise to Afghanistan?