Afghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban: UN

It&#x27;s hard to argue the negative externalities of heroin production are somehow okay because of a &quot;vulnerable population that has long depended on the poppy trade for their livelihood.&quot;<p>Sounds eerily similar to the &quot;crime is okay depending on your wealth level&quot; nonsense.

How realiable is Aljazzera? He is a UN link on this one. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unodc.org&#x2F;unodc&#x2F;en&#x2F;press&#x2F;releases&#x2F;2023&#x2F;November&#x2F;afghanistan-opium-cultivation-in-2023-declined-95-per-cent-following-drug-ban_-new-unodc-survey.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unodc.org&#x2F;unodc&#x2F;en&#x2F;press&#x2F;releases&#x2F;2023&#x2F;November&#x2F;...</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.