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[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Obviously I'm not pro Taliban or this, but one thing that has been amusing me has been the US institute for peace decrying the fact that they outlawed poppy production again because it increases poverty. Western media on the subject is a mixture of it's bad and it won't work (they've actually reduced poppy production by over 90 percent though). Pre war we were justifying sanctions due to heroin production, post war it actually increased under American administration and the fragile kleptocracy we encouraged(which "banned" poppy production), and now it's bad they're slashing and burning poppy fields.

https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/06/talibans-successful-opium-ban-bad-afghans-and-world

this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2024
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