Category: Policy

• Opium & Afghanistan : A Study in Narcotics Control

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  Policy

  Art 3. Vol 1. 2026 Here’s a number worth sitting with: at its peak, Afghanistan was producing over 90% of the world’s illicit opium. Not some of it. Most of it. By a distance. And yet, across twenty years of occupation, billions in aid, and the most sophisticated military apparatus in human history nobody really fixed it.…