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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Didn’t the taliban use opioid sales to finance themselves? Why are they cracking down now?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nope! They sold opiates. Opiates derive from plants, usually poppies, while opioids are synthetic. The Taliban doesn't need/hasn't really needed synthetic opioid production, because Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium poppies.

If anything, in the new era of lab-made chemicals that fry your brain like an egg the first time you hear about them, the Taliban are likely falling behind in the drug trade.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Opiates are opioids. Opiate:opioid::square:rectangle

Opioids are a class of drugs that derive from, or mimic, natural substances found in the opium poppy plant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry I misspoke, I was referring to opiates from poppies not synthetics.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No they burned down those fields (again).

The Americans keep invading, growing, and exporting most of the worlds opium for Johnson and Johnson

The TALIBAN is more anti-opiates than the states by a long shot

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

What are you trying to convey here? The history lesson above was after 2001.

Johnson and Johnson still use imperialism for their supplies, and they still push high-dose opiates on dumb Americans to keep you on the prison system.

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