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Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along (www.mintpressnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Selling it, what else.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Those Sackler and Purdue shareholders weren't going to create profits themselves, government subsidized opium helped them fuel the opium epidemic for those record corporate profits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

explain to me how, exactly, you believe the sackler family profited from afghani opium. I’m curious about your thought process.