RadioGuy wrote:
BBC WS reports land for opium cultivation up 2/3 in Afghanistan.

Record level production of opium since the Taliban bringing in upwards of
billion US dollars.

RG


An estimate I saw said Heroin production was up by 800 (eight hundred)
percent since the CIA took over the operations. Most of the crap winds
up in Europe. The original drug training for the farmers was done by
the CIA in order to get Russian soldiers addicted and demoralized. A
profitable little sideline quickly followed.

The Taliban didn't like drug usage/production, so they pretty well put
an end to all of it...another reason they had to go.