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Opium production in Afghanistan has plummeted since the Taliban banned cultivation of the poppy plant, according to a UN report published on Sunday.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers pledged to wipe out the country's drug industry, banning poppy cultivation in April 2022.

Poppy plants are the source of opium and heroin. Afghanistan was the world's biggest opium producer and a major source for heroin in Europe and Asia before the Taliban takeover.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Women in Kabul in the 1970s:

Looks to me like it was fixed just fine before it was broken.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (10 children)

everyone always posting pictures of Persian women in the 70s wearing western clothing and claiming it was better.... you are looking at a very small sliver of the population who are wealthy

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

They're not Persian women, they're Afghani. And it was better for them because they could wear whatever they wanted, go to school and listen to music.

[–] technicalogical@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

This wasn’t what life looked like on the farm.

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