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Afghanistan’s New Capitalism

The first thing you notice on the flight from Dubai into Kabul is that the business-class section of the plane looks like it is populated straight out of central casting: large, heavily muscled men in their 40s wearing North Face gear as if it were...

Chocolate cake mix this is not. (It’s opium.)

Is this a Johnny Ryan sketch or the most light-hearted and fun anti-heroin Afghan graffiti of all time?

everything, everywhere

The “poppy palaces” we found were designed as though Liberace were a fundamentalist Muslim who sold heroin and kidnapped people.

Vice Guide to Everything on MTV

When junkies go through the hallucinatory stages of heroin withdrawal is this what they see? Two donkeys trundling toward them with enough smack on their backs to kill off the whole of the Lower East Side circa 1979?