Great report
Opium: the Taliban's dilemma
An Afghan drug addict smokes heroin in the provincial town of Ghazni west of Kabul.
(Illustrative photo) © AP / Musadeq Sadeq
By: Sonia Ghezali Follow
In Afghanistan, 10% of the population is addicted to drugs.
The country is the first opium producing country in the world.
The Taliban in power since August 15, 2021 claim to want to put an end to drug use.
The fundamentalists even imposed forced detoxification as soon as they took power.
As for production, the discourse is less radical.
Indeed, how to ban drugs in a country where the state coffers are empty and development aid is frozen by the IMF among others?
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"Opium: the dilemma of the Taliban", a great report by Sonia Ghezali, with the collaboration of Tawab Zafarzai.
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