Quickie: Opium production in Afghanistan by year, depending whether the Taliban was running the country without war.
Quickie: Opium production in Afghanistan by year, depending whether the Taliban was running the country without war.
https://www.unodc.org/documents/crop-monitoring/Afghanistan/Afghanistan_Opium_Survey_2025.pdf
Please note that the Taliban banned production in 2001 (before we attacked them) and in 2023-2025, after the US left. You can also see that after Obama took office, opium production rose.