content: Not exactly. Afghanistan had a huge drought which wiped out the countries production. They got desperate and made a deal with the UN to ban it in exchange for AID. Problem was the Taliban didn't have much control over the countryside. After we invaded we found out that everyone was still growing it. There was also no other industry in the country so our collation forced them to sell opium to pharmaceutical companies to keep it off the black market. The Taliban started growing again but they sold their crops through Pakistan to Indian and Chinese countries. This is what lead to the massive heroin shortage where we now have massive overdose deaths due to synthetic drugs. After the invasion of Afghanistan there was also a huge cartel war in Mexico because of how valuable heroin was. The shit doubled in price overnight.