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4 hours ago, FrancieFootball said:

He said opioids. Afghanistan has been a major producer with poppies, used to make heroin. The Taliban has put a good dent in it, but the country still produced 300 tons of it 2025.

https://www.unodc.org/documents/crop-monitoring/Afghanistan/Afghanistan_Opium_Survey_2025.pdf

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Did you ever hear of the secret CIA plan to replace all the poppy seeds in Afghanistan with ones that produced far less opium?

In the end it didn’t work out that well (link below)  

As for the Taliban, they originally cracked down HARD on poppies. But production moved to the south of the country where the Taliban is weaker, and even into parts of Pakistan  

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/17/nx-s1-5608135/part-of-the-u-s-strategy-in-20-years-of-war-in-afghanistan-weakening-poppies