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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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COURTESY MICHAEL REDMAN. A scene from Pandemopium.

Poppies, Kid Rock and the Taliban

By Emily Welch September 11, 2015

Afghanistan’s rural Kandahar province — the cradle of the Taliban insurgency — has a plant problem. Poppies, the Dorothy-red flowers that are tapped to make opium, outnumber the citizens. Landowner...

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