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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.

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[-] febra@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

They managed to do what the Americans haven't managed in two decades. As much as I hate the taliban for being religious extremists, they did a good thing with this one.

[-] kleenbhole@lemy.lol 5 points 10 months ago

America wasn't trying to stop opium production, we were using druglords to beat warlords. The brother of the leader we installed was the kingpin.

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