CIA was behind the cocaine epidemic. There was an opiate epidemic while the US was in control of Afghanistan, something Big Pharma and the FDA also have a responsibility for.
God, I hate the american deep state so much its fucking unreal. Constantly messing with countries they have no business in. I'm gonna pop champagne if Putin is gonna nuke DC to ash
Afghan opium isn't going anywhere. The Taliban themselves are the biggest money-maker off of the opium trade. This is just them trying to assume control and prevent anyone else from having a stake.
In July 2000 the Taliban enforced a ban on poppy farming via threats, forced eradication, and public punishment of transgressors. The result was a 99% reduction in the area of opium poppy farming in Taliban-controlled areas, roughly three quarters of the world's supply of heroin at the time.The ban was effective only briefly due to the deposition of the Taliban in 2001.
The sap is collected by scoring the head of the poppy and allowing the plant to produce latex from the wound. The inside of the seed pod is hollow and does not contain any liquid. The seeds are collected and sold separately as food after the head has matured and dried.
CIA was behind the cocaine epidemic. There was an opiate epidemic while the US was in control of Afghanistan, something Big Pharma and the FDA also have a responsibility for.
God, I hate the american deep state so much its fucking unreal. Constantly messing with countries they have no business in. I'm gonna pop champagne if Putin is gonna nuke DC to ash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m37G-06ibAU
Money, and because they could with no oversight and no fear of repercussions.
Afghan opium isn't going anywhere. The Taliban themselves are the biggest money-maker off of the opium trade. This is just them trying to assume control and prevent anyone else from having a stake.
It's no coincidence that the opioid crisis happened while we were in Afghanistan and then came to a head on the eve of the Afghan pullout.
Opium production tripled under US occupation. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/136E5/production/_106598597_afghan_opium_chart-nc.png
It's a hard pill to swallow, but our government is ran by drug dealers.
The US government's War on Drugs (TM), 2021 (colorized)
Without small farmers harvesting there is no opium trade.
This is a direct blow on CIA's black money... We're closer and closer to an all-out war
They're bound to get grumpy. First they've lost their opium fields and now they've lost their biolabs and corrupt puppet government in Ukraine.
They're already busy toppling the Pakistani government because they didn't play along with sanctions against Russia.
how is fentanyl made anyway?
Afghanistan War 2: Electric Boogaloo coming this summer
Yes, regular people can’t harvest them. That might make them money. Taliban harvesting only.
These Russian sanctions are getting ridiculous.
Poppy sap is used to produce opium, not the seeds.
The sap is collected by scoring the head of the poppy and allowing the plant to produce latex from the wound. The inside of the seed pod is hollow and does not contain any liquid. The seeds are collected and sold separately as food after the head has matured and dried.