Opium trade blooms in Afghanistan as country’s economy wilts after Taliban takeover | South China Morning Post

With Afghanistan’s economy on the brink of collapse, farmers in the southern city of Kandahar are turning to the region’s most lucrative cash crop – opium poppies. Opium prices have risen three-fold after the Taliban promised not to become a narco-state and end its reliance on the opium harvest. For decades, the Tal…

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