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It isn't exactly clear what happened to the heroin production, when the Taliban was once again installed as the vicious rulers of Afghanistan...
Up until the US troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, the Afghan heroin production continued to be protected by private mercenaries and NATO troops.

Some have argued that the real reason for the 2001 US/UK invasion of Afghanistan was the crackdown on poppy fields by the Taliban to blackmail the Bush-Cheney administration...
Since the US/UK invasion in October 2001, poppy production in Afghanistan has increased 25-fold until 2016, from 185 tons in 2001 to 4800 tons in 2016.

In 2014, the Afghan poppy cultivation hit a record high.


The Afghan heroin economy is very lucrative (while Afghan farmers have difficulty making ends meet by growing food).
In connection with money laundering it benefits the elite and also funds insurgencies and wars that are good for business.

In the last decade, there has been a surge in Afghan heroin exports, which has fuelled a dramatic increase of heroin addicts in the US.
There were 189,000 heroin users in the US in 2001. By 2016 that number went up to 4.5 million (2.5 million addicts and 2 million casual users of heroin).

With nothing else to do, because of the coronavirus lockdown, people have turned to recreational drugs.
In 2020, deaths from opioids and drug addiction in the US increased threefold.


In one of those strange coincidences, the same Johnson & Johnson that is selling its “experimental” COVID-19 adenovirus viral vector vaccine, is also a major producer of "prescription" opioids.
In November 2020, Johnson & Johnson reached a "tentative $26 billion settlement" in the US after turning its victims into dope addicts: https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-spoils...n-trade/91