What will the Taliban do with the world's largest opium crop?

[pecksniff]

One the one hand, they're such Islamist puritans. I'm sure they won't even allow alcohol. Their natural impulse would be to burn the poppy fields.

OTOH, it seems much too valuable not to sell as usual. A new government needs all the revenue it can get.

 

[phrodeau]

The Sacklers are buying.

 

[pecksniff]

The Sacklers are buying.

Good point, we're not talking just about the heroin trade here, there is a legal market for the product.

 

[pecksniff]

Best thing for the world, of course, would be if the Taliban themselves develop a taste for the shit.

Junkies ain't good for much, but they're mostly harmless.

 

[Champakian]

They are driven by the twofold lure of capitalistic profit
and the gleeful purposeful poisoning of the West...

This is what Islam means to them.



In short, the poppy wealth allows them to spread their poisonous beliefs on several levels.

 

[Champakian]

Best thing for the world, of course, would be if the Taliban themselves develop a taste for the shit.

Junkies ain't good for much, but they're mostly harmless.

They treat junkies like they treat Christians, gays and women.



:shrug: