Afghan Opium Farming Flourishes Under U.S. Occupation

The cultivation of the opium poppy, the base ingredient of the narcotic Heroin, was made illegal under the Taliban. Since the U.S. invasion in 2001, Afghanistan has had record-breaking production of the cash crop, and supplies about 90% of the world's consumption. Today, more land is used in Afghanistan to grow opium poppy, than Latin American land is used to grow coca.

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