Biff_Poindexter
Diamond Member
The Taliban is banning drugs in Afghanistan. The world will change for the worse
After the Taliban’s opium ban in the early 2000s, a heroin drought in Estonia led underworld chemists to start manufacturing fentanyl
www.independent.co.uk
"After the spectacular scenes of the fall of Kabul on the weekend, the Taliban’s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid held a press conference where — along with complaining about being kicked off Facebook; he declared that Afghanistan was going to be drug-free. “There will be no drug production, no drug smuggling. We saw today that our young people were on drugs near the walls; this was making me very, very sad that our youth are addicted,” he said.
Zabihullah’s referring to the Taliban’s opium ban in the early 2000s, seemingly one of the few successful wars on drugs -- so let’s say the Taliban make good on cleaning up their act and do force out the heroin business. What then? if you squeeze the drug business on one end, it simply reappears on another. If the poppy fields vanish from Afghanistan, junkies will still need their medicine. The United States is now enduring a fentanyl crisis; Europe’s largely managed to avoid the fentanyl crisis, partly because we’re well-supplied with Afghan heroin. But if that supply dries up, it won’t be long before someone finds a substitute."
So in the media's desperation to try to make a tragedy out of leaving Afghanistan and at least attempting to get out of the never-ending wars business; they have managed to create another crisis ---- what about the poppy fields?? They are basically saying we should have stayed in Afghanistan indefinitely because we need someone there to protect the opium....Fact of the matter is, the Taliban will still continue with opium production; but to the extent any ban on drugs occurs -- that ban will be more focused on its own population...I highly doubt it is the Taliban's responsibility to keep the world supplied with adequate amounts of opium.....
