If the Taliban hadn’t banned opium growing as haram, they could have taxed opium production to provide a much larger government operating budget.

Uh. The opium ban was only for one year. It was caused by an oversupply that reduced the value of the Taliban’s stock in hand. Once the oversupply was reduced business continued as usual.

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#60. Bill Carson,

Insanity is in believing that year 95 of opiate prohibition is going to work any better than the previous 94.

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The key to defeating a lot of the insurgencies around the world is to stop subsidizing them through prohibitions. Mexico and Afghanistan are the same problem in different geographic locations. The Drug War has turned into a real war. One we have been losing for a very long time. No surprise. You can’t solve a medical problem by police or military action.