Conservative pundits talk about China or Mexico is fueling America with pain killers that are killing off our people meanwhile our soldiers in Afghanistan were doing shit like this in the name of “preserving democracy” or something.

The Taliban eventually kicked out America and along with it the people who were growing these plants to be sold as drugs in the United States for the pharmaceutical companies all under the eyes of the CIA.

As a result Poppy production has utterly died in Afghanistan as the Taliban doesn’t want that haram crap under their watch.

Al-Jezeera

Poppy cultivation and opium production have plunged more than 90 percent in Afghanistan since Taliban authorities banned the crop last April, according to a UN report published on Sunday.

Poppy cultivation has dropped by around 95 percent – from 233,000 hectares at the end of 2022 to 10,800 in 2023 – since the Taliban officially banned poppy farming in April 2022, according to the report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

Opium production has taken the same path, falling from 6,200 tonnes to 333 tonnes over the same period giving a major blow to Afghan farmers who have experienced a staggering $1bn drop in their revenue.

UN officials said that while this trend could help in the fight against the illicit opium trade, it also presented risks to a vulnerable population that has long depended on the poppy trade for their livelihood.

The only reasons Afghans would rely on it being grown is that they were selling it overseas. Now that there aren’t any marines to defend them the Taliban came in and shut all that down since Opium is haram.

Now the UN wants it to continue even though the trade has resulted in thousands of Americans and Europeans dying from it.

The only reason Afghanistan is in a crisis is the entire world placing sanctions as cope for 20 years of failure. Lift the sanctions and Afghanistan becomes a normal country.

Props to the Taliban for ending their country being used as a giant drug factory. Big Pharma already found sources to produce the pills that the FDA still keeps approved all this time and the Right Wing pundits keep blaming the Chinese government for it.