Europa. Massive Drug Busts Target Albanian Weed Gangs Supplying Europe Police have dismantled a drug ring specialising in weed cultivation which trafficked truckloads of the drug from Spain across Europe. VICE, UK, 02.09.2021) https://www.vice.com…

Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, opium is as big a winner as Islamic extremism After more than 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan, the withdrawal of United States-led forces is causing a humanitarian crisis as the Taliban takes control of the cou…

Afghanistan. Afghanistan ‘will not be a country of cultivation of opium anymore’, Taliban insists A Taliban spokesperson has insisted that Afghanistan will no longer produce drugs, despite currently being the largest illicit opium supplier in the w…

Afghanistan. The Taliban plans to ban drugs in Afghanistan. That could change the world for the worse After the Taliban’s opium ban in the early 2000s, a heroin drought in Estonia led underworld chemists to start manufacturing fentanyl. (The Indepe…

Afghanistan. APRIL 2021 Afghanistan Opium Survey 2020 - Cultivation and Production ‒ Executive Summary The total area under opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was estimated at 224,000 hectares (202,000 - 246,000) in 2020, which represents an in…

Afghanistan. The Taliban Can't Afford to Stop Producing Heroin – Unless the US Pays Them “They will want a very good deal to end the production,” a former special forces soldier turned anti-narcotics consultant told VICE World News. “But let’s face…