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Similar happened with opium poppies in Afghanistan iirc - paid money to burn opium fields, meant that farmer planted more opium fields. Then when they stopped
by olliej 5y ago
Similar happened with opium poppies in Afghanistan iirc - paid money to burn opium fields, meant that farmer planted more opium fields.
Then when they stopped being paid to destroy them the farmer returned to selling the opium from the fields they’d already planted.