re: #407 sattv4u2

True.. HOWEVER

[Link: www.unodc.org…]

Despite the drop in opium cultivation, production and prices, the Taliban and other anti-government forces are making massive amounts of money from the drug business.

Yep. They collect taxes (to simplify the description) on the business. It’s an interesting concept: “we don’t like it, we’re going to try and stop it, but while it exists we’re also going to collect our pound of flesh.”