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The question seemed loaded with bs. I am from both places. Prefer SD for now.

afh398h398h3f98fh3f98ahf983 says

With the US out Afghanistan poppy production has again dropped to record low levels.

Link? How is that reported? And where are the historical averages and the source of that data to make this claim?

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2835230

While not heroin specific, included though, makes one wonder what happened during the Biden years? Illegal immigration was left unchecked. Usage and OD's went up during his years. Trump flatlined about a year after being in office. 2nd term even better. Hmmm, probably had nothing to do with illegals and everything to do with less poppy growers in Afghanistan. Quite the leap.

Has nothing to do with poppy across the globe that would cost a fortune to ship and massive risk for a drug that maybe 1M people use out of 300+ million people. There's not enough demand. https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/heroin/scope-heroin-use-in-united-states

Also there's this drug called fentanyl that became pretty popular and is easier to make. I'm sure that had nothing to do with it. Either way drug use is flat or decreasing when Trump has been in office. Nothing to do with poppy.

I can agree Afghanistan was a waste of time if you want. But to say the US had anything to do with poppy growing is hysterical. Trump stop the drugs from flowing. Biden let them in. Poppy growers saw the 2nd term of Trump and stopped growing it because there was no one to sell and ship it for them #illegals. That's how most drugs get into this country.

Fentanyl weighs significantly less as well for lethal doses, which is one metric for incoming drugs. Why grow the poppy if something else is more popular? There's always an explanation, just have to think it through.