The illicit drug and its deadly heroin derivative are fueling the Taliban’s strength and helping expand the group’s reach.
In its Afghanistan Opium Survey 2017, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reports:
The 2017 record levels of opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan create multiple challenges for the country, its neighbours and the many other countries that are transit for or destination of Afghan opiates. The significant levels of opium poppy cultivation and illicit trafficking of opiates will probably further fuel instability, insurgency and increase funding to terrorist groups in Afghanistan. More high quality, low cost heroin will reach consumer markets across the world, with increased consumption and related harms as a likely consequence.
When compared to 2016, production nearly doubled (87 percent increase) from 4,800 metric tons to 9,000 metric tons.
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Agent Orange the Afghanistan!
ReplyDeletewhy do you think we are still there? Evey one know the reason the US is there is to protect the poppies....
ReplyDeleteIncorrect. My family are fighting subhuman terrorist. I demand you retract your comment. Thank you.
DeleteSorry but your family was told they are their to fight terrorist but in actuality they are merely helping Washington bureaucrats get wealthy and sadly defending the interest of pharmaceutical companies and the poppies.
Delete1:44 I am sorry you believe that but you are wrong. We are mainly there to protect the poppy fields and give the illusion of fighting terrorism.
DeleteGotta pay for their weapons somehow.
ReplyDeleteand our drug addicts are more than willing to help them.
And people wonder why we have an opioid epidemic in the US. Now think further about how its getting here.Anyone remember Contra and Panama?
ReplyDeleteYou watched a liberal directed documentary on Netflix now your expert on heroin.
DeleteAll that opium is why you have a heroin epidemic here in the States. The CIA is bringing it in. Thank Uncle Sam for your overdose deaths.
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