In both Tajikistan and Afghanistan, profits from the opium trade fund warring factions. Standard methods to curb drug plant cultivation fail in the absence of a functioning state to implement them. As long as the warlords need money to buy weapons, peasants in the Golden Crescent will continue to grow opium
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