Afghanistan: Plant-Based Meth from Afghanistan Is Turning up All over the World

Jun 16, 2021 | Niko Vorobyov, Vice
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Better-known for its vast poppy fields supplying up to 90 percent of the world’s heroin, Afghanistan’s new plant-based meth – which is cheaper and easier to produce for locals than making it from scratch in a lab – is turning up all over the world: in southern and eastern Africa; Iran, Iraq and Turkey in the Middle East; in Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Australia.