Afghanistan's stoner cops on patrol
It no secret that drug use, predominantly hash smoking, is prevalent among Afghan police officers and soldiers.
But the latest story for Al Jazeera English offers a vivid example of the problem.
In the report that aired this week, Clayton Swisher got hold of video (shot by US soldiers) of Afghan police getting stoned before heading out on patrol.
Since the problem is so pervasive, the US soldier quoted in the piece seems to take the drug use as one in a number of nuisances he has to deal with in southern Afghanistan.
As it happens, Swisher has been embedded in Afghanistan's Arghandab valley, where US and Afghan forces are ramping up efforts to drive Taliban fighters out of the key Kandahar region...
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