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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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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.

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

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