the Taliban banned it in 2000 when it dropped to about zero.
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Baloney! The Taliban forced people to grow it. They aren’t against making money as long as the drugs are sold to non-islamics.
“Baloney! The Taliban forced people to grow it. “
That simply isn’t true. It is very well documented fact that they brought it almost to a halt. Of course that was in the context of crushing and reordering the entire society, but they did indeed.