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Afghanistan
Is the Taliban getting hooked on fentanyl?
2023-08-27
[TheNewEuropean] In April 2022, the Taliban
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’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Arkhunzada, announced a ban on the production of drugs, which have earned the terrorist-led group billions of dollars and financed their ultimately successful 20-year war to overthrow Afghanistan’s western-backed government. During that time, the Taliban cornered the global market for heroin and transitioned into methamphetamine, which they also export worldwide.

The ban has reportedly led to a drastic reduction across Afghanistan in the planting of poppy flowers, which produce opium, the raw material for heroin. Satellite imagery is also said to show that many centres of meth production have fallen quiet. Local sources in the major growing regions in Helmand
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Eradicate the CIA, designate the cartels as terrorists and finish the wall. That is where I would start. The War on Drugs is a joke with the CIA still around.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-08-27 12:13  

#1  The crux: "The Taliban have spent decades building a global monopoly on heroin, dominating the $55-billion-a-year market with almost 100 percent of production. Massive stockpiles of raw opium mean that "Made In Afghanistan" heroin isn’t likely to run out any time soon, though the perception of looming shortages, after the ban announcement, is pushing prices to the stratosphere."
Posted by: Jerens Black9355   2023-08-27 08:50  

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