{"id":30050,"date":"2023-11-05T21:05:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T02:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=30050"},"modified":"2023-11-05T21:05:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T02:05:33","slug":"afghanistan-opium-poppy-supply-plummets-95-after-taliban-ban-u-n-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30050","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan opium poppy supply plummets 95% after Taliban ban, U.N. says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SN2LRQT2YZJQFHQVBAI7FRZZSM-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"122\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, previously the world&#8217;s top supplier, has plummeted since the Taliban administration banned the cultivation of narcotics last year, a United Nations report said on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/afghanistan-opium-poppy-supply-plummets-95-after-taliban-ban-un-2023-11-05\/\">Afghanistan opium poppy supply plummets 95% after Taliban ban, U.N. says<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>so it&#8217;s possible to almost eradicate opium, and opresemably other drugs.  but what is the cost?  are the penalties so harsh (the Taliban are considered a fairly ruthless bunch), or the fear of them so big.  reminder I want to try opium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, previously the world&#8217;s top supplier, has plummeted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[687,1837,758],"class_list":["post-30050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-afghanistan","tag-opium","tag-taliban","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30057,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30050\/revisions\/30057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}