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The Taliban Does It Again!
• Corbett Report Substackby James Corbett
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November 16, 2025
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) just came out with their latest survey of opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, and you'll never guess what it says. . . .
. . . Oh wait, you totally will. It turns out the Taliban's ban on poppy cultivation has been remarkably successful!
Specifically, the UNODC is estimating the total area in Afghanistan under opium poppy cultivation to be 10,200 hectares, down 20% from last year's total of 12,800 hectares. While the new total may still sound like a lot, it's a mere fraction of the 232,000 hectares that were estimated to be cultivated in the year before the US military's spectacular pullout from the country in 2021.
In other words, the Taliban have somehow or other succeeded in doing what NATO was unable to do in two decades of de facto occupation: decimate Afghanistan's share of the global heroin trade.
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1 Comments in Response to The Taliban Does It Again!
That's a lot of opium. Are there that many people who want it? If they want it, why not? Government should broadly advertise the dangers, and then let them do their thing... if it kills them. No government support, later. Of course, maybe opium is good for you, and cures diseases, and is competition for Big Pharma. After all, just listen-to/look-at the warnings on the pharmaceutical drugs, but they are still promoted.