Не ми текнува кои од западните фанови на темата за дроги глумеа лудило дека САД во Авганистан не произведуваат и дилаат опиум/хероин за финансирање на т.н. „црни операции“ (како на пример државниот удар во Украина 2014-та)... Ме мрзи да прелистувам ама не е ни важно кои беа, но еве нешто специјално за нив:
Imperialism and illicit drugs commonly go together. However, with Taliban opium eradication efforts in full effect, heroin is in short supply, and experts fear that a new fentanyl crisis could be brewing in the US.
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Taliban’s Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along
The Taliban government in Afghanistan – the nation that until recently produced 90% of the world’s heroin – has drastically reduced opium cultivation across the country. Western sources
estimate an up to 99% reduction in some provinces. This raises serious questions about the seriousness of U.S. drug eradication efforts in the country over the past 20 years. And, as global heroin supplies dry up, experts tell
MintPress News that they fear this could spark the growing use of fentanyl – a drug dozens of times stronger than heroin that already kills more than 100,000 Americans yearly.
The Taliban Does What the US Did Not
It has already been
called “the most successful counter-narcotics effort in human history.”
Armed with little more than sticks, teams of counter-narcotics brigades travel the country, cutting down Afghanistan’s poppy fields.
In April of last year, the ruling Taliban government announced the prohibition of poppy farming, citing both their strong religious beliefs and the extremely harmful social costs that heroin and other opioids – derived from the sap of the poppy plant – have wrought across Afghanistan.
It has not been all bluster. New research from geospatial data company
Alcis suggests that poppy production has already plummeted by around 80% since last year. Indeed, satellite imagery shows that in Helmand Province, the area that produces more than half of the crop, poppy production has dropped by a staggering 99%. Just 12 months ago, poppy fields were dominant. But Alcis estimates that there are now less than 1,000 hectares of poppy growing in Helmand.
Instead, farmers are planting wheat, helping stave off the worst of a famine that U.S. sanctions
helped create.
Afghanistan is still in a perilous state, however, with the United Nations warning that six million people are close to starvation.
Data from Alcis shows that a majority of Afghan farmers switched from growing poppy to wheat in a single year