The Taliban generated upwards of $400 million selling the narcotic between 2018 and 2019. But in what seems to be a shift in policies, the Taliban have now banned opium cultivation in Afghanistan.
In a proclamation released on Sunday, Taliban supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada declared the production of poppy, the source of sap that is processed into morphine and heroin, illegal, completing the Taliban's commitment to abolish the drug after gaining control last year. In 2021, Af...
