It comes as a surprise then, that a June 2023 report published by Alcis, a British-based geographic information services firm, revealed that the Taliban government had all but eliminated opium cultivation in the country, wiping out the base ingredient needed to produce heroin. This outcome mirrored a similar move by the Taliban in 2000 when they were in power for the first time.
https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/07/07/how-the-taliban-crushed-the-cias-heroin-bonanza-in-afghanistan/
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