diaspora / anti-Taliban
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Afghanistan International · Afghanistan · Methamphetamine displaces opium as Afghanistan and the Golden Triangle pivot to synthetics
Reports rising methamphetamine production in Afghanistan despite the opium ban, framing the Taliban's narcotics policy as displacing rather than ending the drug economy and questioning the regime's claimed counter-narcotics success.
“Methamphetamine production is rising in Afghanistan, the UN says, even as the Taliban's opium ban cuts poppy cultivation.”