David Mansfield on the Taliban, Afghanistan & Drugs
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How Opium Undermined Afghanistan?
The subtitle of your book was, how opium undermined afghanistan. I think we often overstate the value of opium within these rural communities in terms of community's aspirations and what they wish to achieve. People will talk about opium poppy as a very difficult crop to grow. But i've watched communities where be a large amount of poppy in that area. And those communities gone down to zero or had gone down tozero ovr the last 20 years.
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