• XTornado@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    TLDR: The unprecedented fall in cultivation follows the Taliban’s decision to prohibit the growing of poppies for opium in April last year.

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      1 year ago

      Is the implication that the US did not prohibit growing poppies for opium?

      Edit: Apparently, this is true per the article OP linked below.

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      And a high demand in wheat thanks to the Ukraine war

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        Idk… I have as a priority to not make angry the Talibans if they are with me but maybe that’s just me.