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The methamphetamine economy is adapting in response to the Taliban’s continued efforts to curb production and trade in Afghanistan. While the industry maintains substantial productive capacity in Afghanistan, it operates at a much smaller scale than in the past. More importantly, the Taliban’s actions to curb the methamphetamine industry in Afghanistan are having a direct impact on the country’s neighbours. Balochistan province in Pakistan appears to be especially vulnerable to widespread drugs production given its permissive environment, the prevalence of armed groups, and a skilled Afghan work force that can easily move across porous borders. Far from being eliminated, the methamphetamine industry is metastasizing in response to the Taliban drugs ban and embedding in the restive tri-border area between Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, where it will be particularly difficult to tackle.

The Taliban continue to suppress the production of methamphetamine in Afghanistan, raising transaction costs and reducing the incomes of those involved. Evidence points to a reduction in operational capacity, with smaller ephedrine and methamphetamine labs and a reduction in both the frequency and the amounts produced (see Figure 1). Lower production in turn has led to reduced demand for the raw input ephedra from the central highlands, which has also become increasingly difficult to harvest due to the Taliban drugs ban and increased vigilance on the roads. The increased risks and costs of production combined with reduced orders for Afghan methamphetamine and falling prices, have reduced both profitability and the incomes of those at each stage of the ephedra-ephedrine-methamphetamine value chain (see Figure 2).