Taliban Clamp Down On Drugs, Announce Ban On Poppy Harvest

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban have announced a ban on the poppy harvest, even as farmers in some parts of the country began extracting the opium from the plant that is needed for making heroin

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    Anyone violating the ban would ... cut down an opium poppy field The Taliban decree wasn't applied to the 2022 opium harvest, which according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ...
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