Afghanistan: Opium supply drops 95% after Taliban drug ban – DW – 11/05/2023
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Afghanistan's Taliban rulers pledged to wipe out the country's drug industry, banning poppy cultivation in April 2022. Afghanistan was the world's biggest opium producer and a major source for heroin in Europe and Asia.

Opium production in Afghanistan has plummeted since the Taliban banned cultivation of the poppy plant, according to a UN report published on Sunday.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers pledged to wipe out the country’s drug industry, banning poppy cultivation in April 2022.

Poppy plants are the source of opium and heroin. Afghanistan was the world’s biggest opium producer and a major source for heroin in Europe and Asia before the Taliban takeover.

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      261·
      11 months ago

      True, to fight the war.

      It seems however, during peacetime, they have a history of banning the drug trade for religious reasons

      • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldEnglish
        152·
        11 months ago

        The United States blocked grain shipments to Afghanistan because Republicans didn’t want any more competition to US farmers. So they grew poppies.