around 80% of the world s heroin supply originates from here. we are driving through a bazaar where opium is being sold openly. much of it is then going to be processed into heroin. the taliban are not stopping drug production in fact, they ve been taxing it for years. they don t want journalists to see it being traded. that is why we are filming from inside the car. you call yourselves an islamic government but you are allowing drug production. isn t that hypocritical? translation: under the islamic emirate, before 2001, the growing and selling of opium dropped to zero. right now we re to find alternatives. we cannot take this away from people without offering them something else. foryears, poorfarmers have relied on opium to provide for their families. now, as afghanistan s economy collapses without international support, and water levels continue to drop, many see it has
in fact, they ve been taxing it for years. but they don t want journalists to see it being traded. that is why we are filming from inside the car. you call yourselves an islamic government but you are allowing drug production. isn t that hypocritical? translation: under the islamic emirate, before 2001, the growing and selling of opium dropped to zero. right now we re trying to find alternatives. we cannot take this away from people without offering them something else. eradicating this is good for us in the international community, so the world should help too. for years, poorfarmers have relied on opium to provide for their families. now, as afghanistan s economy collapses without international support, and water levels continue to drop, many see it as the safest crop to grow. opium destroys a lot of people s lives.
seeing it being traded, that s why we are filming from inside a car. you call yourselves an islamic government and you are allowing drug production. isn t that hypocritical? translation: under the islamic emirate before 2001 the growing| and selling of opium dropped to zero. right now we are trying to find alternatives. we can t take this away from people without offering them something else. eradicating this is good for us in the international community, so the world should help too. for years poorfarmers have relied on opium to provide for their families. now, as afghanistan s economy collapses, without international support when water levels continue to drop, many see it as the safest crop to grow. opium destroys a lot of people s lives.
you call yourselves an islamic government, but you are allowing drug production. isn t that hypocritical? translation: under the islamic emirate, before 2001, the growing and selling of opium dropped to zero. right now, we re to find alternatives. we can t take this away from people without offering them something else. foryears, poorfarmers have relied on opium to provide for their families. now, as afghanistan s economy collapses without international support, and water levels continue to drop, many see it has the safest crop to grow. opium destroys a lot of people s lives. if opium is banned, what will happen to you guys and your families? the taliban regularly haul these
doubled and there are still warehouses full of it. it is another dangerous drug, heroin, from opium poppies like these most commonly associated with afghanistan. before the taliban takeover, opium tradeers paid off corrupt officials and sold would the black paced secretly. now, they have been allowed to open up stalls and markets. we are driving through a bazaar where opium is being sold openly. much of it is then going to be processed into heroin. the taliban are not stopping drug production in fact, they ve been taxing it for years. they don t want journalists to see it being traded. that is why we are filming from inside the car. you call yourselves an islamic government but you are allowing drug production. isn t that hypocritical? translation: under the islamic emirate, before 2001,