Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power
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[–]zyxzevn 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (3 children)
The graph "How Aghan Opium Poppy Farming has grown" shows why we needed to invade Afghanistan quickly.
[–]magnora7[S] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun - 3 years ago (2 children)
Yeah the taliban banned poppy growth in 2001 and that's why the US invaded in 2002. 90% of the world's poppy is grown in afghanistan, and it's used to make all pharma opioids
[–]iraelmossadreddit 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
don't forget about tasmania. they are growing genetically modified poppoes that produces insane amounts of opium.
https://psmag.com/ideas/opioids-limiting-the-legal-supply-wont-stop-the-overdose-crisis
[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
Also gay rights. There is a big gay paedophilia problem there. Taliban prevented homosexuals from raping boys, and what do you know, after the Americans invaded they put these homosexuals in power and the homosexual paedophilia resurged in the country.
[–]bagano1 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
Disingenuous headline, the story mentions how diesel is very adulterated and how solar is basically better than nothing for their situation.
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