Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
A number of groups in Taliban have mainstay commodities other than opium i.e. cannabis or ganja. Cannabis quality in Afghanistan touted to be one of the best in the world, especially in the form of cannabis resin (hasis).
Heroin, morphine, opium and marijuana have largely provided the Taliban with substantial income in recent years.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported that in 2021, Afghanistan was ranked second after Morocco for the area of origin of cannabis circulation throughout the world in the 2015-2019 range.
Beneath it are Pakistan and Lebanon. Its circulation spread to Middle Eastern countries especially in the Arabian Peninsula, South Asia, and West Asia.
Types of hashish from Afghanistan were also identified in Asian, Eastern European, Western European, and Central European countries during cannabis confiscation processes.
In the 2015-2019 period alone, most of Iran’s confiscated cannabis came from Afghanistan. About 65 percent of the seized marijuana was destined for the Arabian peninsula. While 15 percent to the Caucasus region, and 20 percent for local consumption.
Although in 2019 as many as 21 hectares of cannabis plants were eradicated, in the following year there was no similar action.
Causes of growing opium and cannabis cultivation in Afghanistan, read on next page…
Poverty, Fertile Land for Opium and Marijuana
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