{"id":11679,"date":"2022-04-25T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/?p=11679"},"modified":"2022-04-23T09:28:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T13:28:04","slug":"taliban-declares-total-ban-on-poppy-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2022\/04\/25\/taliban-declares-total-ban-on-poppy-cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Declares Total Ban on Poppy Cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Charleigh Stone<br \/>\n<\/b><b><i>Staff Writer<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The cultivation of poppy is now strictly prohibited in Afghanistan, per a recent decree from the Taliban. The move comes amid the Taliban\u2019s bid for formal international recognition, in which cessation of the Afghan drug trade has been a major impediment to the international community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new ban also prohibits the use, sale, transfer, purchase, import, and export of wine, heroin, and other narcotics. It was announced by the Prime Minister\u2019s Administrative Deputy, Mawlawi Adbul Salam Hanafi, in an official decree to local and international media, reports <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/03\/world\/asia\/taliban-opium-poppy-afghanistan.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The New York Times<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The group\u2019s decision to ban poppy cultivation is not unprecedented, but rather reminiscent of their previous rule in the late 1990s, when a countrywide ban largely helped eradicate poppy production. The ouster of the Taliban in 2001 saw a reversal of progress in the eradication of the drug trade, causing the harvesting and extracting of opium from poppies to become the main source of income for millions of small farmers and day laborers, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/afghanistans-taliban-announce-ban-poppy-production-83843130\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ABC News<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the ban will help to eradicate the illegal drug trade, it is also likely to exacerbate Afghanistan\u2019s ongoing humanitarian crisis. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/afghanistan-business-taliban-flowers-1645cbd08660c6115e2d7d4cb6ac0183\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Associated Press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the UN last month asked for $4.4 billion in aid to support the 95 percent of Afghans that do not have enough to eat. However, the Taliban\u2019s earlier poppy ban caused a 75 percent reduction in the global heroin supply in 1999, reports <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/pipe-dreams-the-taliban-and-drugs-from-the-1990s-into-its-new-regime\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brookings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. As it\u2019s difficult to know how the Taliban will create substitute crops or provide financing for famers, those whose livelihoods depend on opium production are likely to face further devastation by the ban.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, Afghanistan remains the world\u2019s largest opium manufacturer, producing more than 6000 tons last year, creating a potential yield of 320 tons of pure heroin. Nearly 80 percent of the supply reaches Europe through drug corridors in Central Asia and Pakistan, ABC News continues. Income from opiates in Afghanistan accounted for more than nine percent of the country\u2019s GDP, with exports and domestic consumption grossing between $1.8 billion and $2.7 billion, says the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unodc.org\/documents\/crop-monitoring\/Afghanistan\/Afghanistan_Opium_Survey_2021.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">United Nations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The lucrative nature of opium harvesting has previously subjected the Taliban to internal backlash over attempts to curb production. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/taliban-bans-drug-cultivation-including-lucrative-opium-2022-04-03\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reuters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Taliban sources are anticipating tough resistance from elements within the group.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The decision to ban poppy production has been largely attributed to Kabul\u2019s continued international isolation and sanctions, which have been imposed by the international community since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and United States\u2019 military withdrawal. Initial arguments that the U.S. should ease sanctions and unfreeze the Afghan Central Bank\u2019s foreign reserves to address the growing humanitarian impact, despite potential benefits for the Taliban\u2019s \u201cterrorist\u201d regime, have been stalled amid Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine,\u00a0 reports the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/globalinitiative.net\/analysis\/talibans-poppy-ban-afghanistan\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The conflict has diminished the resources and political capital that governments in the West were willing to expend on Afghanistan. The Taliban also sparked outrage amongst the international community after reneging on earlier promises, such as those to observe the rights of women and girls. This move suggests efforts to divert attention to what, in the Taliban\u2019s view, should be a more practical concern, says Global Initiative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The cessation of the illicit drug trade has often topped foreign policy priorities toward Afghanistan, in part to deprive the Taliban and affiliated insurgent groups of a major source of financial support. Previously, the Taliban had little choice but to work with local distributors and regional smugglers to take advantage of the profitable drug markets across Europe and Canada, necessary to fund their war effort against the Western-installed government in Kabul. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy-com.eu1.proxy.openathens.net\/2022\/03\/31\/the-geopolitics-of-the-talibans-opium-economy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Foreign Policy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the U.S. allocated upwards of $8 billion over 15 years in attempts to curb the trade, devising airstrikes and lab raids to eradicate poppy agriculture in Afghanistan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following the ban, Afghanistan\u2019s acting Deputy Prime Minister, Abdul Salam Hanafi, urged the international community to cooperate with the country on counter-narcotic initiatives, such as drug rehabilitation and crop diversification, reports <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/4\/3\/taliban-bans-drug-cultivation-including-lucrative-opium\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Al Jazeera<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Despite continued attempts to reduce the transnational threat of narcotics from Afghanistan, however, attention to counter-narcotics strategies has been trending downwards over the past decade. According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rusi.org\/explore-our-research\/publications\/rusi-newsbrief\/what-future-uk-drugs-policy-afghanistan\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Royal United Services Institute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, countries such as the United Kingdom have started to divest themselves of wide-ranging counter-narcotic responsibilities in response to a comprehensive history of failing to reduce production levels and market flows.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cultivation of poppy is now strictly prohibited in Afghanistan, per a recent decree from the Taliban. 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