| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Illegal
Afghanistan. The Taliban Announces a Ban on Opium. Really? [FEATURE]
Afghanistan. The Taliban Announces a Ban on Opium. Really? [FEATURE]
On April 3, the Taliban announced a ban on drug cultivation in Afghanistan, for years the world's dominant opium producer, accounting for more than 80 percent of the global supply of the substance, from which heroin is derived, throughout this century. But the ban announcement raised as many questions as it answered and has been met with a degree of skepticism, not only around the motives of the Taliban but also because opium plays such a key role in an Afghan economy that is now in especially dire straits. (stopthedrugwar.org, USA, Issue 115, 15.04.2022)
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2022/apr/15/taliban_announces_ban_opium