page_title: Cannabis in Afghanistan
hierarchical_section_title: Cannabis in Afghanistan
caption_attribution_description: English: Lance Cpl. Taylor M. Boyd, a squad automatic weapon gunner with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, sights his weapon down a field during a patrol in Marjah, Afghanistan, Aug. 15, 2010. Boyd, 19, is from Ellenboro, N.C.
context_page_description: Cannabis in Afghanistan has been cultivated for centuries, and experienced relatively little interference until the 1970s, whereafter it became an issue both in international politics and in the finance of the series of wars which occurred in Afghanistan for forty years. Although currently illegal, in 2010, the UN reported that Afghanistan was the world's top cannabis producer.
context_section_description: Cannabis in Afghanistan has been cultivated for centuries, and experienced relatively little interference until the 1970s, whereafter it became an issue both in international politics and in the finance of the series of wars which occurred in Afghanistan for forty years. Although currently illegal, in 2010, the UN reported that Afghanistan was the world's top cannabis producer.
caption: US Marine in a cannabis field in Helmand province, 2010
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