Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has fallen by 95 percent since the Taliban took control of the country, the United Nations’ DEA says in a new report. The cultivation was banned in April 2022 by the Taliban, who announced that violations of the covenant will be punished “in accordance with Sharia law”. Already in 2000, the Taliban stopped opium cultivation in the country, but... 

Taliban supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada has outlawed the cultivation of poppy, the source of sap that is refined into morphine and heroin, in a decree issued on Sunday, fulfilling its promise to ban the narcotic, made after seizing power last year. Afghanistan is estimated to have accounted for 90% of global opium trade in 2021. “If anyone violates the decree, the crop will be destroyed... 

American counternarcotics policy in Afghanistan has been senseless, as growing opium poppies remains the only source of income that keeps rural areas alive. Meanwhile millions of US dollars pumped into the country end up in the pockets of warlords experts say. A top US watchdog is urging the Trump administration to investigate potential links between the record production of opium in Afghanistan and... 

Barely 24 hours after stunningly revealing that President’s Donald Trump and Barack Obama have been leading a secret Freemason coup against the Bush-Clinton Crime Families, the Security Council (SC) in a new report circulating in the Kremlin today states that over 50 top Obama regime Pentagon and State Department intelligence experts have now joined with Trumpian forces as America’s new leader... 

Afghan opium is being processed into high-grade heroin in clandestine Turkish drug labs for distribution in Europe and Russia, Russia’s anti-drug chief has revealed. The trafficking route was exposed after a joint Russian-Afghan anti-drug operation. “The cargo traveled through Badakhshan-Doshi-Bamiyan-Herat, then further through Iran and into Turkey, where the opium was processed in well-equipped... 

America’s war on drugs is failing in Afghanistan, with opium production at record levels, despite spending $7.5 billion to tackle the problem. Over 200 thousand hectares is used to grow opium, an increase of 36 percent, according to a US report. The report, which was commissioned by SIGAR, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction makes grim reading, with opium poppy cultivation... 

The tragic death of Academy Award winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman reveals the complete and total fraud of the War of Drugs which is now in its fourth decade. News outlets report that Hoffman died from an extremely strong type of heroin which is processed from opium out of Afghanistan. Before the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by U.S. and NATO forces, the landlocked country in Central Asia accounted... 

A scathing report authored by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the United States President’s role in protecting the Afghanistan drug trade essentially labels Barack Obama as the most powerful drug cartel leader our world has ever known. Speaking at a conference this week on communicable diseases Lavrov lashed out over Obama’s refusal to eradicate Afghanistan’s poppy crop and stated,...