Isn't it remarkable that the US puppet regime in Afghanistan collapsed and now overdose deaths are falling

A remarkable coincidence

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Remember how the cia reported a budget shortfall when that happened as well?
been reading The Politics of Heroin recently, interesting stuff!
shoutout to the taliban for helping us in the war on drugs
This... is concerning.
There's a great trueanon episode about this
What is their drugs policy?
I hope it's not just that people are afraid of reporting deaths as overdoses now.
- I'm talking about overdose deaths in the US
  Afghanistan became the world's #1 producer of poppies by like a magnitude of 10x during the American occupation. After the Taliban took over they banned the growth of poppies.
  The opioid epidemic was home grown
  
  Ah OK.
  Just been reading a bit about it and it sounds like the biggest factor might be the reduction in fentanyl use in the US, which shot up (excuse the pun) in relation to heroin over the pandemic due to supply chain pressures and is now falling again. It was accounting for 50-80% of opioid overdoses.
  What the US did in Afghanistan and Iraq was really bad though.
- taliban didn't read what happened when the Qing banned opium
- 90 percent of the world's opium production to almost 0 in six months. An amazing success.
Broke: I'm joining the war on drugs on the side of drugs.
Woke: I'm joining the war on drugs on the side of the Taliban
Yeah I really don't know how to feel about it
It's honestly a topic that could drive me to tinfoil-hatsville

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