{"id":11438,"date":"2022-02-14T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/?p=11438"},"modified":"2022-02-13T23:32:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T04:32:11","slug":"afghan-drug-trade-threatens-u-s-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2022\/02\/14\/afghan-drug-trade-threatens-u-s-war-on-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Drug Trade Threatens U.S. War on Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madi Field
\n<\/b>Staff Writer<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Concerns regarding the impact on Afghanistan\u2019s opium trade have been largely elusive from global conversations since the Taliban reclaimed control of Afghanistan last August, despite its prominence as a multi-billion dollar industry. <\/span>Reuters<\/span><\/a> reports the United States government has spent more than $8 billion in an unsuccessful effort to eradicate it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After their takeover last year, Taliban leaders quickly announced their intention to end the opium trade in Afghanistan. Spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid decreed that \u201cAfghanistan will not be a country of cultivation of opium anymore,\u201d declaring that the Taliban would attempt to \u201ceradicate the production of narcotics\u201d in the largely rural, mountainous nation. As the Taliban previously banned the growth of poppies in 2000 for religious reasons, <\/span>The European Foundation for South Asian Studies<\/span><\/a> argues that their claims should be given consideration. However, international experts and even the Taliban themselves seem to doubt the veracity of these claims.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Given the Taliban\u2019s known lack of asset control and financial instability, the economic viability of enforcing such a ban has been in question. <\/span>BBC News<\/span><\/a> reports that the Taliban\u2019s 10 percent taxation rate on opium farming and further taxation of heroin laboratories and narcotics smugglers provides a significant source of income for the terror group. While exact monetary estimates of opium revenue for the terror group vary, U.S. Commander General John Nicholson asserts that the drug trade may account for as much as 60 percent of the Taliban\u2019s annual revenue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, the Taliban face a fierce opponent in banning opium production – the Afghan people. <\/span>The Brookings Institute<\/span><\/a> notes that prior attempts by the Taliban in 2000 to ban opium cultivation in the hopes of gaining international legitimacy proved both wildly unpopular and unsuccessful. In one of the world\u2019s poorest countries, the estimated $1.5 billion industry of opium cultivation provides opportunities to peasants intimately tied to poverty and economic underdevelopment. Banning the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of Afghans created a grave threat to the \u201cdomestic political capital\u201d of the terror group, forcing the Taliban to reconsider their strict stance. The Taliban ultimately reversed the ban in 2001 amid this national outcry, an unusual deviation for the regime that some scholars believe was intended to strengthen the country\u2019s political force in preparation for a coming war with the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Already, patterns of narcotics trafficking hint that the Taliban are reneging on their promises amid the country\u2019s continued instability. <\/span>Politico<\/span><\/a> reports that the British National Crime Agency predicts an imminent \u201cupward trajectory\u201d of opium cultivation as Afghanistan and its economy further deteriorate. Prior attempts by the West and surrounding nations to diminish the narcotics trade through force have largely failed, indicating that a renewed effort to eradicate drugs may prove similarly unsuccessful. Experts argue that, from an economic perspective, it will be difficult to permanently reduce the country\u2019s drug trade because Afghanistan lacks the necessary resources to diversify and properly industrialize rural areas. Until the government can provide a better alternative to opioid production for impoverished peasants who depend on the trade for their livelihood, opium cultivation will likely continue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Politico continues that experts fear increased production of opium will have drastic effects on the European drug market, which receives 95 percent of its heroin, and a growing percentage of its methamphetamine, from Afghanistan.\u00a0 Jeremy Hunt, the chair of the British House of Commons health committee, argues that the surge in heroin availability across Europe \u201cwould be the most unintended of a long list of unintended consequences\u201d stemming from last year\u2019s Afghan withdrawal, and would be disastrous for the UK\u2019s already burgeoning drug crisis. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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