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.

  • Nacktmull@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    It doesn’t do a thing to hinder drug use by those who need it/seek it out.

    I never implied it would …

    • Cinner@lemmy.worldBEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      I was either adding on to your comment or meant to reply to someone else, don’t remember, but wasn’t debating.

      • Nacktmull@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Apologies, I was not entirely sure about your comment from the beginning.