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It’s hardly news that Afghanistan’s huge opium crops supply more than 90% of the world’s heroin. But now U.N. officials say Afghanistan is also the world’s biggest producer of another drug — hashish.

With Afghanistan’s opium output now breaking all previous records, it seems that hashish continues to remain an important sideline for the country’s warring factions—and to hear the US tell it, it’s ...

KHWAJA GHOLAK, Afghanistan — Amid the multiplying frustrations of the fight against narcotics in Afghanistan, the northern province of Balkh has been hailed as a rare and glowing success. Two years ...

Frustrated by government attacks on their opium poppy crops, a growing number of farmers in Afghanistan are turning to a lucrative alternative that is just as illegal: cannabis, the source of ...