In a new policy brief by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Ambassador Marc Grossman, former U.S. Undersecretary for State for Political Affairs, argues that the U.S. should try converting opium into biofuel and transform Afghanistan’s destructive cash crop into a renewable energy source. Afghanistan’s massive and ever-growing poppy fields, if processed as fuel, can help Afghanistan cover its own growing energy needs.

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