"That's not like ban-ban, is it?"
Posted on 11/05/2023 6:46:26 AM PST by FarCenter
Since returning to power in 2021, Taliban authorities have vowed to end illegal drug production in Afghanistan and in April 2022 banned the cultivation of the poppy plant, from which opium and heroin are made.
The report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found that poppy cultivation has collapsed by an estimated 95 percent -- from 233,000 hectares (575,755 acres) at the end of 2022 to 10,800 in 2023.
Opium production has followed suit, plummeting from 6,200 tons to 333 tons in 2023.
This year's estimated harvest amounts to 24-38 tons of exportable heroin, compared with 350-580 tons last year.
The UNODC warned of potential "humanitarian consequences for many vulnerable rural communities" due to the sudden contraction of Afghanistan's opium economy, as growers have had to turn to far less lucrative alternative crops.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
CIA deeply saddened.
Good thing we have chinese fentanyl.
Lol. GMTA.
95% down? Call me skeptical.
Opium is so 20th century.
What about the “potential humanitarian consequences” for all the communities on the receiving end of 500 tons - that’s 500,000 kg or 1,000,000 lbs. - of heroin?
Does the UN care about that??
Why whould anyone take the UN’s word for this?!
....would...
It makes one wonder just how did the poppy growth flourish during the 20 year war? Then suddenly disappear once the Taliban took back over? Hmmmm.
My recollection is the Golden Triangle had excellent opium production during the Vietnam war. Hmmmm.
Is there a common denominator there?
I don’t know anything about the drug trade or how fentanyl likely took over but the UN being honest? And tgey want to claim 95% success? After JB piled out of the region ass backward.
I think America’s garbage ruling class was in the heroin business.
Taliban Ban. Another Toby Keith hit! It’s good to know the UN has been keeping their eye on this. Freeloading third worlders.
The CIA is in the heroin business.
The second brother, Robert Bennet Forbes, sailed to China as a 13 year-old cabin boy on his uncle Handasyd Perkins’ ship, the Canton Packet, in 1817. A master mariner, and later the inventor of the Forbes rig for sailing ships, he commanded his own vessel in a three-year voyage around the world in 1824-27.
In 1830 he became the head of Russell & Co.’s opium storehouse, the Lintin, which was permanently anchored at Lintin (Lingding) Island, the opium depot in the Pearl River estuary. He handled the gritty tasks of repacking the Turkish opium for delivery and negotiating with smugglers and drug brokers. In the process he earned over $30,000 a year and went home a rich man.
https://industrialhistoryhk.org/forbes-robert-bennet/
"That's not like ban-ban, is it?"
Taliban don’t need the income, plenty coming in from Demented Uncle Joe.
Former president and scumbag George Herbert Walker Bush was the Director of the CIA....
There were persistent rumors that American servicemen in Afghanistan were guarding the heroin poppy fields on behalf of the CIA. Who knows if there’s any truth in it . . .
This is George Bush.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.