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In the 1980s, the US encouraged the Mujahedin to use the opium trade to help finance their anti-communist insurgency, even as it launched a War on Drugs crusade at home.
The Central Intelligence Agency notes in its World Factbook that in 2017 while U.S. forces remained in Afghanistan that that country was the largest producer of opium in the world and that the opium trade was “a key source of revenue for the Taliban inside Afghanistan.”