October 27, 2009

How Invasion of Afghanistan Worked for Opium Production ¹⁰

by Alek • Politics • Tags: Afghanistan, Drugs, Opium, opium product chart, opium production graph, war and opium prouction chart

I was reading through some articles about the increase of opium production in Afghanistan and came across the following graph from Wikipedia. This data was published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). It is interesting to note that during the period when Taliban was gaining power,  the opium production actually showed [...]