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.

  • zerfuffleEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Read up on Sharia law. It’s bad (particularly for women), but it’s surprisingly reasonable in other parts.

    Hostages and POWs are supposed to be treated with decorum, for example. Given that this is a religious doctrine, it’s followed far more often than in places where the treatment of hostages and POWs are a political matter.