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179. Drugs Trade in The Taliban's Afghanistan

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The Taliban's War on Heroin

Before the Taliban took over it was pretty clear that they were using the heroin trade to leverage quite a lot of money. They announced after they came into power they were going to completely have this blanket ban on heroin and opium growing across the country. When we got down to Moand they assigned us a soldier for our protection who was basically sort of like a minder who I think was. Yeah but he also just started opening up and saying stuff that I think he just hadn't thought through that this was exactly what he was to not tell us. So by the end of this trip he decided like Nathan was his best mate having kind of looked through me and pretending I didn't exist at the

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