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Afghanistan is about cannabis in Afghanistan. Its cannabis material rests mainly on the three national cannabis surveys of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics (2009, 2010 and 2011), the seed trade's accounts of Balkh, Kandahar and Helmand, and the decrees of 2022 and 2023. Its accessions are listed on the page.
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- Legal status. "Illegal" with 2022, on the decree of 3 April 2022, which UNODC records in writing and which covers "all types of narcotics". UNODC's timeline also dates a cannabis ban to 8 March 2023 but says it "cannot confirm the validity as the decree was issued verbally and circulated to specific de facto authorities only", so 2023 is not used for the field. The article gives the caveat in UNODC's words.
- Counter Narcotics Drug Law of 2005. Named from a secondary source only, which is why it carries a better-source tag.
- Enforcement. The field no longer adds "no cannabis survey published since 2011". The field is stored as data, and an absence is not an enforcement level; see Open questions.
Sources
- The UNODC surveys: each figure is attributed to the report that published it. The 2010 report restates the 2009 prices on a different weighting from the 2009 fact sheet, so prices are not chained across reports.
- Variety names in the 2009 survey. The report is not consistent with itself. Its Figure 2 gives shares for 13 named varieties and an "Unknown" 1 per cent; its text names 13 varieties, a partly different set (the text has Kharwari and Sorkhbandi Shindandi where the figure has Sabz Bang and Sreh chars, and the text's Chagali and Bangi Herati appear in the figure as Chaghali tokhom and Bangi Hirati); and its regional paragraph spells Sabz bangi and Sreh charas. The page takes the shares and their order from the figure and the regional lists from the regional paragraph, each in that passage's spelling.
- Bradford's chapter in Cannabis: Global Histories (2021) is named as the study of the hashish trade in the making of the Afghan state. Nothing on the page is drawn from it.
- The seed trade. The Real Seed Company's accounts of Kandahar and Helmand are given as the company's own claims.
Statements removed and why
- That Afghanistan is "the only country whose cannabis cultivation has been measured by a national survey", and that the 2009 survey was "the first cannabis survey ever conducted anywhere": the 2009 report calls itself "the first systematic cannabis survey carried out in Afghanistan" and compares its yield with the Morocco survey of 2005, one of the cannabis surveys made in Morocco with UNODC.
- "Fourteen named varieties": see Sources.
- That the 2009 survey "attributed the change to a governor-led crackdown in Balkh": it attributes the steep rise in Balkh's cannabis prices to the crackdown and gives that rise as "illustrative" of the shift south.
- "The wiki's five Afghan accessions are of that variety and of the southern crop that displaced it": a count of the wiki's holdings, and "displaced" is not a source's word.
- The Conservation status paragraph ("two things have happened to the Afghan landrace record and they pull against each other"): synthesis in the article's voice. Its facts remain in Geography and in Varieties and genetics.
- "No equivalent measurement exists for cannabis, because the cannabis survey series ended with the 2011 report": the 2011 report cannot attest what was or was not published after it.
Open questions
- Conservation status is a section stub. No source assessing the conservation status of Afghan landraces has been found. Two reported facts bear on it: the 2009 survey's account of cultivation shifting south, away from Balkh, whose Mazari was 58 per cent of the national crop that year; and the end of the national survey series with the 2011 report. No national cannabis survey after 2011 has been found.
- Demographics is a section stub. The UNODC surveys are agronomic and economic and carry nothing on who consumes cannabis, in which communities or how use is organised. No ethnographic study of Afghan cannabis use has been found. The surveys' household economics concern growers, not consumers.
- Geography. The physiographic first sentence carries a citation-needed tag.