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.

  • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yeah of course, with the full backing of Sharia to make it happen. Authoritarians are usually highly effective, the problem is that they’ll most likely control the supply by growing their own and then collaborate with cartels to turn it into a profit source.

    The royal family of Saudi Arabia is a bunch of coke addicted alcoholics but you get killed for using drugs there (unless you run the place.) It isn’t about morality for them and it won’t be for the Taliban.