What price would the Afghan morphine have in the domestic and international market?
A. The Afghan Government will purchase all the locally-produced morphine medicines from the Poppy for Medicine project participants for USD 3,000 per kilo. After packaging and labelling the medicines, the Afghan Government would be able to sell Afghan-made morphine to foreign governments. These foreign governments would be able to provide Afghan-made medicines for as little as 9 US cents per 10 milligram dose. By additional subsidising Poppy for Medicine, still much cheaper than money wasted on current counter-narcotics efforts in Afghanistan, the income of farmers could further increase while prices for consumers could be brought down.
