Afghanistan - should we be concerned?

newusername said:
My understanding was that opium cultivation was relatively flat pre-invasion but it is now c.3x what it was.
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"...the Taliban enforced a ban on poppy farming via threats, forced eradication, and public punishment of transgressors. The result was a 99%
reduction in the area of opium poppy farming in Taliban-controlled areas.

The evaluation uses multiple comparison areas: the non-Taliban area of Afghanistan, neighbouring countries, the non-contiguous comparison area of Myanmar (Burma), and, the rest of the world. Alternative possible causes of the reduction such as drought, migration or changes in global opium markets are reviewed and excluded.

It is concluded that the reduction in Afghan poppy cultivation was due to the enforcement action by the Taliban. Globally, the net result of the intervention produced an estimated 35% reduction in poppy cultivation and a 65% reduction in the potential illicit heroin supply from harvests in 2001.

Though Afghan poppy growing returned to previous levels after the fall of the Taliban government, this may have been the most effective
drug control action of modern times."
 

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Reformed drug dealer who joined British army gives teens hope​

Lucy Fisher, Defence Editor
Tuesday September 15 2020, 12.01am, The Times
Sergeant Rutledge at the pilot of his training scheme at Longmoor training area

A rehabilitated former child drug dealer who became a platoon sergeant in the British army has launched a military scheme to save teenagers from gang life and crime.

Sergeant Rhys Rutledge, 35, is the architect of a five-day residential programme for troubled youths aged 15 to 18 that he is aiming to roll out across the country.

An ex-cocaine addict, who served time in prison for dealing, the Welsh Guards soldier believes that first-person testimony from reformed personnel like him
 
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