Afghanistan is the world’s top opium producer.
Up until recently, Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers said they would punish farmers, to curb production.
But now, facing a dire economic crisis, the group appears to have changed its stance.
Al Jazeera’s Katia Lopez Hoda-Yan has more.
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Can you say supply and demand. Don’t blame them blame the drug addicted western countries.
No body mind or blame what the grow and do.
But when it’s done in religious or Mujahideen disguised then it leads to unrest and even full war.
I’m sure there’s some CIA guys that can help them with the distribution.
Taliban produce. Cia guy will supply to international markets. Simply business.
Nah they got Taliban for that
Unfortunate. Unless world help them, not possible to get rid of opium.
So now you remember that these guys grow opium, but when it was directly under CIA all was well
Use it wise
Opium is an asset…it is used for Narcotic drugs …which is useful Medical treatment during Surgeries or Operations.
Usages:
“Opium has been known for millennia to relieve pain and its use for surgical analgesia” has been recorded for several centuries.
“The Arabic physicians used opium very extensively and about 1000 AD it was recommended by Avicenna especially in diarrhoea and diseases of the eye. Polypharmacy, including a mixture of nonsensical medications were often used.”
“A goddess from about 1500 BC shows her hair adorned probably with poppy-capsules and her closed eyes disclose sedation.”
“the use of opium before surgery and Dioscorides recommended patients should take mandrake (contains scopolamine and atropine) mixed with wine, before limb amputation.”
Afghan opium… coming to a street corner near you!!!.🤔
Smack-tacular
Well atleast they aren’t processing it into the actual drug, just growing the Flower
I saw a documentary maybe 10 years or more and yes they were processing it..
@Sislertx well, in this video. Not the documentary from 10 Years ago
Where they are mostly supplying to?
No excuse for this.
What happened to growing food to eat and enjoying life? Instead growing drugs to take cursing life with disillusionment “we need commercialism it is our only choice”..
I think it’s more of “your growing poppy and liking it”!! Otherwise you would grow enough food for a family on most people’s land.
@Ian Farquharson yep.. you said it 100%! when one “refuses to change” every answer is a redirect around the addiction rather then confronting it lol.. excuses like ” I got no choice but to grow drugs” aka I want no other choice but to grow and take a highly addictive substance.. it’s hard cause you can’t tell you have a major issue when your body adapts to it.. and until they change.. usually the change comes from near life or death experience or forced to move and renters a new symbolic recognition/environment
What else are they supposed to do 🥺
Build military high technology drones like Turkey and export them to the world
1st thing this Shia/Rafidi & CIA backed Talibani drug mafia in Afghanistan should do , *stop drama of being Islamic or mujahideen.*
oh no they going back to haram opium again!!
Amazing world
50 cents vs 100 dollars.
Clearly they are growing poppy.
That is just great…. the entire country is set to starve, and farmers are growing opium….
The farmers are the family members of the taliban and opium is the main source of income for the taliban!
False information
What they are gonna do? Do they have other options?
@CODE Name
Not false. It’s Cia Taliban combined business for decades. Iranian muula’s Shia/rawafiz are taliban leaders. Trillions $ money to support & protect Iranian muula regime.
Afgans are victims of two kinds of misguided wars: on drugs and terror
False News.
Agent Orange would work wonders
*Taliban made Charas & Heroin.*
sharia lovers 🤣🤣
Those Taliban soldiers have the same guns as the US soldiers.
@KootFloris
It was surrender for general public.
Fact is , Before this mafia was working As “US Iran backed Afghan Democratic government”.
Now same mafia with Islamic or mujahideen banner.
@Umro The Ayyar That might be closer to the truth, yes. Why is it, that my most cynical side always gets overtaken by a worse reality?
@KootFloris
Trillions $ business. Iranian muula regime use this money for military/teriz operations all over the🌎. Scary things. Should be enough for all … thanks for read it . Bye for now.
@Umro The Ayyar thnks
Imran khan warned the Americans over and over again about disaster in Afghanistan….. But they didn’t pay attention to this serious matter.
Now the results are showing that everything is turning into a disaster. Each and everyone of us will suffer.
this opium medical are halal,🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱
Opium will revive the economy of Afghanistan
The ONLY WAY THAT PUTIN WILL NOT ADVANCE TO FURTHER EUROPEAN NATIONS IS IF PUTIN IS STOPPED THERE IN EUKRAIN.
NATO KNOWS THIS TRUTH.
NATO MUST GIVE ZELENSKI WHAT HE NEEDS NOW EVEN IF BIDEN DOES NOT.
NO SIR YOU ARE WRONG WITH OUT IRON AND STEEL WE CAN’T BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE . WITHOUT GOLD AND SILVER WE CAN’T MAKE ELECTRIC AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS….
A good product for Afghanistan and a high grade import for the USA.
? Now it’s a problem? Before 2004 the Taliban forbade opium fields. Then after the US invaded opium spiked also
and hey, the opioid crisis in the USA really took off. And now it’s a problem, or…
is the problem US corporations don’t have direct access to them?
We all know were its going 😂😂😂
Funniest thing in Islam is consuming alcohol is Haram but planting and consuming drug is not haram 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Joseph Saleh Drug business are not Haram but consuming Alcohol why???
Alcohol is not haram
Consuming drugs is haram like pork
But in times of need, where there isn’t an alternative, it is allowed. Even pork is allowed if there’s nothing available, because else the person would die and that’ll be suicide and suicide is worse.
That’s what the Taliban spokesperson said: they are trying to find alternatives.
Raring Pig is Haram but planting poopy is halal 😇😇😇
They give the flowers to their wives.
The biggest supplier in the world… The whole world will be on steroids 🤣
From opium…?
Any intoxicant is haraam in Islam. Living out of it is unacceptable as per the religion. The state has to find ways to do away with it.
Plant more & export (any way ) billions of dollars worth of these goods to America, Canada, Australia, and other NATO member countries,and it’s the best revenge you can do against thier atrocities. Eg : OPIUM WAR
I think this is fantastic! western junkies off themselves and Afghan farmers can feed their children. it’s the classic win win!
Economy wilts because of the sanctions imposed by the party that lost this war.
or maybe because the taliban government wont respect the most basic human rights is agreed to in return for aid.
@Ain’t no Slice there is no human rights .
According to Taliban growing opium is okay but girls going to school is not islamic
Let me get 10 killos
The only way to counter your sanctions
Profet don’t like liquor but he likes opium wow just wow 🤡
Taliban…. biggest Drug cartel in the world. Also biggest hypocrites…..
Strawberry fields forever…
Vietnam might give Afghanistan run for its money in this field. A hundred for 1002 grams of dope. Frank went to the wrong country.
Organic and vegan too! ⛳
Get 100,000 people to bleed and see how that makes the hedons in government feel
The g20 government organization is still looking for the mint bldg
Alhamdulillah…
What a load of bollocks maybe if they schooled their daughters they would have a full brain instead of half.
Afghans are amazing
This was the real reason why america invaded
Nope
The amount of money this makes is nothing compared to the 2.6 trillion that was spent.
World should help Afghanistan now
Heey more drug LETS GOOO
As long as the Afghan is alive, there will be poppy fields. It is hard and unprofitable to do something else here.
Even US and NATO failed to stop this by their pupits.
The West is baying, so whats the problem.
Instead of accusing Afghanistan, the west should help to find alternative
Drugs are legal in western countries too .
Let Afgans grow poppy .
we hear the same excuse from drug dealers here in America I don’t make as much money working as McDonald’s as I do selling crack
ibuy my seed from amazon ,Papaver somniferum is the opium bearring poppie , you missed the planting season for this year unless you live the southern hemisphere. im in climate zone 8 and i plant mine in december
I love poppys they’re great crop to grow
The cycle of Cocaine and Opiates. 60/70s was the Heroin craze. But, the good times of the 80s was Coke. 90s was split between X and Heroin. 00s was designer drugs and back to Heroin.
how come such an old video says to be published on March 29 , 2022
Nepal Supports Afgan 🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫
God is good
OH THE DRUG TRAFFICKERS!!!
I’m just wondering, does growing wheat only cost them money or is poppy just more profitable than wheat? I can almost not imagine growing wheat doesn’t make money. Especially with the high wheat costs we currently have. But I have no real idea.
There’s huge price difference that’s all like at least 300% difference 😥
u need to plant opium because you dont have an alternative to feed your family ? WHAT ? despite being less valueable per kilo… wheat fills the purpose of feeding pretty well. what bs. if you do it for the money, just say you r doing it for the money!
They were drug dealers before the war and they are drug dealers after the war. No big surprise.
There can’t be resistance abroad if they keep making money off of it.
Much like opioids were forced upon the Chinese population by the British in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Stop pointing fingers at farmers instead of British, European and American bankers who launder the money as the drug floods our communities thanks to the drug kingpins the SACKLER family of Purdue Pharma of the opioid epidemic.
Was it medicine for century-old?
I am 100 percent sure this is haram in Islam.
These are the achievement of Taliban 🖕🖕🖕🖕
Good for them, they need to recover from 20 years of American attacks, drone strikes and warmongering. Nobody in Washington DC ever cared about Afghan farmers or Afghan civilians.
The terrorists arent going to shut down the poppy fields they are going to quadruple it ….its a fkn cash cow for them….theres going to be an explosion of heroin across the world
Hats off to Bush and his goons. 3 Trillion Dollars going to toilet flush tanks a/w Karzai, Ghani and Hamdullah Muhib…. Millions of Afghans destroyed…. People have started hating US across the Asia…. From Vietnam, N. Korea to Syria, Palestine. Sad, very sad.
They will be forced to grow opium by putting sanctions rather than helping them with tractors and High Yielding Variety of seeds and training.
It’s time to recognize them. As long as they are not a threat to us. If they are just bomb the terrorists who are the threat.
Inshallah one day it’ll stop. Remember, in times of dire needs, this becomes allowed in Islam. Because else they don’t have a means to livelihood. I trust the Taliban government to resolve this quickly and try and give the farmers better alternatives. May Allah protect the Ummah.
So drug is no longer haram
Opium and Heroin is *Haram in Islam*
Taliban : Astagfirullah
But they are making more money than growing wheat
Taliban : *Alhamdulillah*
Western countries and the United States are bastards while Iran blocks the entry of drugs into them and pays millions of dollars in human and financial losses, but they are boycotting Iran.
Afghans are taking revenge of sanctions by selling drugs to Americans 😂✌️
Strange how heroin is gone, but fetanyl is EVERYWHERE.
Hasbuna Allah wanimal wakiil
Beautiful country on the earth 💖👍
Islaam :- opium haram
Taliban :- money 😂
They have no other choice
@Md.Iqbal Hussain industrialization and manufacturing and it sector
lo listen beautiful Quran recitation stay with us.
Allow peace to rain globally!!!
With the profits puppy brings, those honest and practical farmers must have more money to help them marry more under-aged wives.
Afghanistan = Narco state
All People in this video are responsible for the death of humans.
What more to expect from people who takes religious book more important than education and intelligence.
This products is What gives you all opiates for pain and other mainstream pills. People Think drugs, but the massive production goes to big pharma Companies where the opium is white washed through other companies