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Crystal State
© Philip Poupin/zReportage via ZUMA (bios)
Do dolls smoke? 'No', answers the youngest girl Jamila, 6 years old, 'They do not have the right. It is not good.' None of the sisters go to school. Their parents are farmers who, after successive droughts, have lost everything. They are between 6 and 18 years old. They use heroin daily, helping to harvest opium in the poppy fields of Herat, Afghanistan. Sometimes they are employed as ‘mules’ risking their lives to smuggle drugs into Iran. Thirty years of war, an absence of infrastructure and the nepotism of a corrupt state prevent farmers from considering the shift to farming other crops. At only 1$ USD a gram, heroin is easy to buy in the provinces of Herat, Farah and Nimroz, as they are situated on the traffic route between Afghanistan and Iran. For addicts, getting hold of Crystal comes before providing food.
© Philip Poupin/zReportage via ZUMA (bios)
Do dolls smoke? 'No', answers the youngest girl Jamila, 6 years old, 'They do not have the right. It is not good.' None of the sisters go to school. Their parents are farmers who, after successive droughts, have lost everything. They are between 6 and 18 years old. They use heroin daily, helping to harvest opium in the poppy fields of Herat, Afghanistan. Sometimes they are employed as ‘mules’ risking their lives to smuggle drugs into Iran. Thirty years of war, an absence of infrastructure and the nepotism of a corrupt state prevent farmers from considering the shift to farming other crops. At only 1$ USD a gram, heroin is easy to buy in the provinces of Herat, Farah and Nimroz, as they are situated on the traffic route between Afghanistan and Iran. For addicts, getting hold of Crystal comes before providing food.
Crystal State
© Philip Poupin/zReportage via ZUMA (bios)
Do dolls smoke? 'No', answers the youngest girl Jamila, 6 years old, 'They do not have the right. It is not good.' None of the sisters go to school. Their parents are farmers who, after successive droughts, have lost everything. They are between 6 and 18 years old. They use heroin daily, helping to harvest opium in the poppy fields of Herat, Afghanistan. Sometimes they are employed as ‘mules’ risking their lives to smuggle drugs into Iran. Thirty years of war, an absence of infrastructure and the nepotism of a corrupt state prevent farmers from considering the shift to farming other crops. At only 1$ USD a gram, heroin is easy to buy in the provinces of Herat, Farah and Nimroz, as they are situated on the traffic route between Afghanistan and Iran. For addicts, getting hold of Crystal comes before providing food.
© Philip Poupin/zReportage via ZUMA (bios)
Do dolls smoke? 'No', answers the youngest girl Jamila, 6 years old, 'They do not have the right. It is not good.' None of the sisters go to school. Their parents are farmers who, after successive droughts, have lost everything. They are between 6 and 18 years old. They use heroin daily, helping to harvest opium in the poppy fields of Herat, Afghanistan. Sometimes they are employed as ‘mules’ risking their lives to smuggle drugs into Iran. Thirty years of war, an absence of infrastructure and the nepotism of a corrupt state prevent farmers from considering the shift to farming other crops. At only 1$ USD a gram, heroin is easy to buy in the provinces of Herat, Farah and Nimroz, as they are situated on the traffic route between Afghanistan and Iran. For addicts, getting hold of Crystal comes before providing food.
