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Taliban bans poppy cultivation
Militant group follows through on promise to outlaw opium production in Afghanistan, world’s biggest supplier of illicit heroin
3 Apr, 2022
Taliban supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada has outlawed the cultivation of poppy, the source of sap that is refined into morphine and heroin, in a decree issued on Sunday, fulfilling its promise to ban the narcotic, made after seizing power last year.Afghanistan is estimated to have accounted for 90% of global opium trade in 2021.
“If anyone violates the decree, the crop will be destroyed immediately and the violator will be treated according to the Sharia law,” Taliban deputy spokesman Inamullah Samangani tweeted on Sunday. In addition, the governing militant group has also banned the consumption, transportation, sale, export and import of all kinds of drugs and alcohol.
Taliban has expected harsh resistance within the group against the ban and has reportedly said that there had been a rise in the number of farmers cultivating poppies in previous months, according to Reuters’ sources in the militant group.
On Sunday, Afghan farmers collected their first opium harvest of the season in the southern province of Helmand, in Taliban’s political heartland. Poppy prices have more than doubled prior to rumors that a ban would ensue, according to an anonymous farmer in the province speaking to Reuters.
Any repression of poppy cultivation is expected to hit farmers.Last August, Taliban pleaded for “international assistance” to provide them with alternative crops to the booming poppy fields. The United Nations has responded by calling for action on the pledges.
Returning to power after seizing the capital Kabul last year, Taliban announced its government would be going back to its zero-tolerance drug policy. The militant group had previously ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001 until they were toppled during the US-led invasion of the country.
90% of the world's opium and heroin came from Afghanistan last year.With production and exports centered in Taliban-controlled areas, the militant group is thought to have taxed the drugs during their 20-year insurgency.
Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi has pushed back against claims the Taliban helped fuel poppy cultivation, saying on Sunday“How come it was exported all over the world when they (US-led forces) had full control over Afghanistan?”
UN officials reported that the Taliban likely earned more than $400 million between 2018 and 2019 from the drug. The amount of land planted with poppies hit a record high in 2017 and has averaged around 250,000 hectares in the last four years, roughly four times the level of the mid-1990s, UN figures show.
The UN expects that another country in Asia will step up its poppy cultivation, Myanmar, which was the biggest heroin producer in the world in the 1980s, before more cost-efficient Afghanistan took over.
https://www.rt.com/news/553221-taliban-ban-poppy-cultivation/
[for newfags, look up Alfred McCoy]
DRUGS, MONEY, AND THE BANKSTERS
June 2012
… as Henrik Krueger pointed out in his landmark study,The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence, and International Fascism,this link to international drug trafficking includeddeep penetrations into the intelligence world,and post-war fascism. Now, we have yet another link confirming something that I've been arguing here, and in my books, for some time now, and that is that there was a post-war creation of a vast,hidden network of finance linking not only international Fascism, intelligence, and…western banks….
We have, in other words, these pillars of a hidden system of finance (if one accepts the hypothesis I've been arguing in connection to the bearer bonds scandals):
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Gold, and possibly a hidden system of gold-backed bearer bonds;
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Oil, and petro-dollars, whose "backing" is, frankly, the West's military and primarily that of the USA; and,
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Drugs.
It is worth noting also thatthe connection between gold and drugshas its own roots in the Japanese policy during World War Two, since many of those in charge of looting Asia of its bullion and precious gems were also involved in promoting drugs in China, a fact which I hope to research further. This policy, however, is older than the Japanese;the elite in the City of Londonpursued it long before that…
https://gizadeathstar.com/2012/06/drugs-money-and-the-banksters/
anon's inference is that the 'abandoned' weapons thing was a deliberate, backroom deal to help Taliban fight CIA-sponsored drug lords / networks in Afghanistan
guess what cabal needs to make fentanyl?
Tasmanian poppy farmers are at the centre of the US opioid crisis, but they say they're not to blame
12 Oct 2019
Tasmania is more than 14,500 kilometres from Oklahoma, but Australia's island state has found itself caught in the crossfire of a devastating drug epidemic that has claimed more than 700,000 lives in the US.
Widely known for its rich history and pristine national parks, Tasmania is also the world's largest producer oflegal alkaloids — the raw materials from poppies that make powerful opioid painkillers.
… In his findings of fact, Judge Balkman detailed how J&J had acquired and formed subsidiaries Tasmanian Alkaloids and US-based Noramco in the 1980s "in order to 'ensure a reliable source of raw narcotic materials'".
"Noramco, located in the US, imports the narcotic raw materials supplied by Tasmanian Alkaloids, like morphine or thebaine, into the US, processes them into API [active pharmaceutical ingredients], then sells them to drug manufacturers," the judgment read.
Thebaine is used to make oxycodone, commonly branded as Endone or OxyContin.
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Key points:
Tasmania is home to a poppy-farming industry that supplies 50 per cent of the raw materials to make the world's opioid painkillers
The state was specifically mentioned in a US court case in which a US pharmaceutical giant was found to have helped fuel Oklahoma's opioid crisis
Poppy farmers say they comply with all international and US federal regulations and are not to blame
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-13/tasmania-poppy-farmers-in-crosshairs-of-us-opioid-crisis/11588766