With the Taliban having exceeded expectations and reduced poppy cultivation to levels not seen since 2001, there is now a real need to understand the potential effects of the drugs ban on Afghanistan, the region, and further downstream. For many of us old enough to have seen a particular style of music, or clothes, come round a second or third time, the term “unprecedented” is often overused. Those who are from Afghanistan, or worked there for a sustained period, are likely to feel much the same
Yes, totally unexpected, it’s not as if one of the reasons of the US invasion was to make them their opium producers to satisfy the opium addiction they have in their homeland where the let their people die of prescribed overdoses