It's hard to argue the negative externalities of heroin production are somehow okay because of a "vulnerable population that has long depended on the poppy trade for their livelihood."<p>Sounds eerily similar to the "crime is okay depending on your wealth level" nonsense.
How realiable is Aljazzera? He is a UN link on this one. <a href="https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2023/November/afghanistan-opium-cultivation-in-2023-declined-95-per-cent-following-drug-ban_-new-unodc-survey.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2023/November/...</a>
Apparently this is something that the Taliban hates more so than anyone has hated it before.<p>They seem to be well acquainted with that hatred thing.<p>Looks like that is not surprisingly one of the most thorough ways of exterminating a species or group of living things.