[HN Gopher] Opium production in Afghanistan drops by 95%: UN report
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       Opium production in Afghanistan drops by 95%: UN report
        
       Author : johnyzee
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2023-11-05 20:22 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.unodc.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.unodc.org)
        
       | mediumsmart wrote:
       | which is the level of 2001, the year the international coalition
       | went in to spend the next 20 years there.
        
         | netsharc wrote:
         | Long-ass but eye-opening article:
         | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afgh...
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         | It focuses on one woman who's a few years older than me, but
         | has only known conflict and a lot of running away from bombs
         | since she was five. Fucking hell!
        
       | ghosty141 wrote:
       | While this is great news in a vacuum this clould have serious
       | implications for the drug market in europe where ,,real" heroin
       | is still more popular than fentanyl since its far more readily
       | available (through countries like Afghanistan). This lower prod.
       | rate might lead to fentanyl spreading in europe leading to more
       | deaths like we see in the US.
       | 
       | While this is obviously speculation its still a very interesting
       | case where a good change may lead to a worse overall outcome.
        
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