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Quoted: You mean they banned everyone from growing it, except themselves? There is a difference between maintaining the Rule of Law and brutality. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Taliban is better at the war on drugs You mean they banned everyone from growing it, except themselves? There is a difference between maintaining the Rule of Law and brutality. That is rule of law. It either involves the threat of brutality or the use of brutality |
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Quoted: Have they eradicated anally gang-raping young boys? Because I remember that being a thing with U.S. allies. View Quote Funny story, the Taliban actually rose to power in the 90s and stopped that practice. It experienced a resurgence when the US refused to stop it for fear of alienating the Afghans. |
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Damn, the last thing we need is to cutoff the supply of heroin.
Popular music is bad enough as it is, and a big part of that is musicians and songwriters not using heroin anymore. If you remove all of the classic albums going back to the 60’s that weren’t written by some heroin addict, you are left with some really cheesy, bottom of the barrel pop. Think Rebecca Black ‘Friday’. Edit: Or anything by Taylor Swift. |
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Quoted: It's not hard to win if you're willing to put dealers and smugglers to a swift death sentence. View Quote It's not hard to push a narrative when your country is a mostly unaccountable tribal shithole. It's cute that the Taliban is saying this. I'd bet 99% of Afghanis are still smoking hashish. |
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Are Poppy's that difficult to grow that it only works in that region? Or is some other entrepreneurial country going to fill the need? I guess with fentanyl the market is smaller.
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Quoted: "... and that's a bad thing!" Witness the logic of Globohomo and our establishment. There will never be an end to drugs. The Southern border will never be closed. View Quote When you have a giant apparatus dedicated to stopping the flow of drugs, the flow of drugs must be maintained. Governments seek first and foremost to maintain their own existences, and they do this through maintenance of the status quo. |
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Quoted: It's not hard to push a narrative when your country is a mostly unaccountable tribal shithole. It's cute that the Taliban is saying this. I'd bet 99% of Afghanis are still smoking hashish. View Quote https://www.voanews.com/a/taliban-s-war-on-drugs-going-strong-for-now-/7219105.html I'm inclined to believe it, and I say good for them. |
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Quoted: Don't know man, every journalist seems to verify the claims. https://www.voanews.com/a/taliban-s-war-on-drugs-going-strong-for-now-/7219105.html I'm inclined to believe it, and I say good for them. View Quote Interesting. |
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Quoted: That last part is important. For the progressives to rule, they need people to be poor enough to be dependent on government for their existence, but not so desperate that they start to blame the government for their problems. They also benefit from mass addiction to stupifying substances. They NEED those poppy fields. They just can't say it out loud. View Quote |
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Quoted: It's not hard to push a narrative when your country is a mostly unaccountable tribal shithole. It's cute that the Taliban is saying this. I'd bet 99% of Afghanis are still smoking hashish. View Quote "Satellite imagery analyzed by Alcis and associated research by David Mansfield, an independent researcher who has conducted extensive fieldwork and analysis on Afghanistan's opium sector and rural economy for more than a quarter-century, show that the Taliban opium ban, announced in April 2022, has been remarkably successful in sharply reducing opium poppy cultivation. In Helmand, by far Afghanistan's largest opium-producing province, the area of poppy cultivation was cut from over 129,000 hectares (ha) in 2022 to only 740 ha as of April 2023. The reduction in Nangarhar, another long-standing opium producing province, is also impressive only 865 ha this year compared to over 7,000 ha in 2022." |
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Quoted: According to the article: "Satellite imagery analyzed by Alcis and associated research by David Mansfield, an independent researcher who has conducted extensive fieldwork and analysis on Afghanistan's opium sector and rural economy for more than a quarter-century, show that the Taliban opium ban, announced in April 2022, has been remarkably successful in sharply reducing opium poppy cultivation. In Helmand, by far Afghanistan's largest opium-producing province, the area of poppy cultivation was cut from over 129,000 hectares (ha) in 2022 to only 740 ha as of April 2023. The reduction in Nangarhar, another long-standing opium producing province, is also impressive only 865 ha this year compared to over 7,000 ha in 2022." View Quote I missed the satellite imagery part. Makes sense now. |
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Quoted: Taliban is better at the war on drugs View Quote its interesting because american intervention in afghanistan resulted in the country becoming the largest exporter of heroin. the taliban banned it before, but supposedly used the income for some period of time and apparently are banning it again. chopping peoples heads off to convince them not to be in the illegal drug business is apparently effective. imagine if every drug dealer captured was taken to the football (not soccer) field in this country and beheaded during public events.... might win the war on drugs. might put a cramp on places like kengsington pa.. |
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Quoted: Quoted: If poor people are making money at something, even if it's illegal and harmful and generally considered "bad" by the rest of the planet, we must allow them to continue doing that thing. ... I'd introduce some fentanyl. |
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Quoted: Funny story, the Taliban actually rose to power in the 90s and stopped that practice. It experienced a resurgence when the US refused to stop it for fear of alienating the Afghans. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Have they eradicated anally gang-raping young boys? Because I remember that being a thing with U.S. allies. Funny story, the Taliban actually rose to power in the 90s and stopped that practice. It experienced a resurgence when the US refused to stop it for fear of alienating the Afghans. The Taliban seems less and less nutty by the day, in comparison to Globohomo acolytes. |
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Opium is a store of value. Its like stockpiling gold, except its bricks of opium. The rich and powerful have large stockpiles of opium. After all, they are the ones in the export business. Not some simple illiterate farmer working 20 acres of poppies to feed his family.
Production traditionally exceeds what they can export. So, reduce new supply, demand remains the same, and guess what, the price of the commodity goes up. Meanwhile, only poor farmers are adversely impacted by a new prohibition on growing. Big picture, its a huge immediate win for the warlords and the Taliban's financial backers in Afghan and Paki. Best thing that has happened for them since the last prohibition when the Taliban was in charge. They become richer and more powerful, and the people are reduced to absolute poverty. Absolute poverty means none of the kids go to "real" school. The only school opportunity is a religious madrassa. Where they read only the Koran and related texts, and grow up to be Taliban. Taught to hate to the West and the modern world. So, the Taliban wins too. Just because they primitive, and shit in a hole, that does not mean they are stupid. They are very clever, and understand full well the impacts of policy decisions like this. And, its not to form a new agrarian economy focused upon feeding the nation or legal exports. Its to insure a long term theocracy that the rich and powerful can exploit. |
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Quoted: @Riter Fentanyl is 100% synthetic. Same as Demerol and Propoxyphene. Morphine and Codeine are 100% natural and make up a percentage of opium. Heroin (diacetylmorphine) is semi-synthetic. Start with a natural opioid and modify it to be more potent. Same as Dilauded, oxycodone, etc. View Quote @c-4 - So Chynuh is shipping the chemicals to the cartels to make the stuff? |
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Quoted: According to the article: "Satellite imagery analyzed by Alcis and associated research by David Mansfield, an independent researcher who has conducted extensive fieldwork and analysis on Afghanistan's opium sector and rural economy for more than a quarter-century, show that the Taliban opium ban, announced in April 2022, has been remarkably successful in sharply reducing opium poppy cultivation. In Helmand, by far Afghanistan's largest opium-producing province, the area of poppy cultivation was cut from over 129,000 hectares (ha) in 2022 to only 740 ha as of April 2023. The reduction in Nangarhar, another long-standing opium producing province, is also impressive only 865 ha this year compared to over 7,000 ha in 2022." View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: It's not hard to push a narrative when your country is a mostly unaccountable tribal shithole. It's cute that the Taliban is saying this. I'd bet 99% of Afghanis are still smoking hashish. "Satellite imagery analyzed by Alcis and associated research by David Mansfield, an independent researcher who has conducted extensive fieldwork and analysis on Afghanistan's opium sector and rural economy for more than a quarter-century, show that the Taliban opium ban, announced in April 2022, has been remarkably successful in sharply reducing opium poppy cultivation. In Helmand, by far Afghanistan's largest opium-producing province, the area of poppy cultivation was cut from over 129,000 hectares (ha) in 2022 to only 740 ha as of April 2023. The reduction in Nangarhar, another long-standing opium producing province, is also impressive only 865 ha this year compared to over 7,000 ha in 2022." Attached File Industrious. |
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Quoted: They're just more committed to results. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Taliban is better at the war on drugs They're just more committed to results. Attached File |
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40 years after the fall of Saigon, you see American vets moving there to retire.
Maybe 40 years from now, Afghanistan will be the same. |
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Quoted: 40 years after the fall of Saigon, you see American vets moving there to retire. Maybe 40 years from now, Afghanistan will be the same. View Quote Attached File |
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