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Didn’t the taliban use opioid sales to finance themselves? Why are they cracking down now?
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.
Opiates are opioids. Opiate:opioid::square:rectangle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid
Sorry I misspoke, I was referring to opiates from poppies not synthetics.
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
J&J sources thebaine from the Tasmanian variant. They don't mess around with the old morphine and codeine bases anymore to make their opioids.
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.