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Afghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban: UN

by rakibtg on 11/14/23, 12:19 AM with 7 comments

• by sQL_inject on 11/14/23, 3:43 AM

  It's hard to argue the negative externalities of heroin production are somehow okay because of a "vulnerable population that has long depended on the poppy trade for their livelihood."

  Sounds eerily similar to the "crime is okay depending on your wealth level" nonsense.

• by paulkrush on 11/14/23, 2:04 AM

  How realiable is Aljazzera? He is a UN link on this one. https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2023/November/...

• by fuzzfactor on 11/14/23, 1:09 PM

  Apparently this is something that the Taliban hates more so than anyone has hated it before.

  They seem to be well acquainted with that hatred thing.

  Looks like that is not surprisingly one of the most thorough ways of exterminating a species or group of living things.