In our post yesterday on the $100 million in revenue that the Taliban gains from the opium trade, we forgot to mention another key fact regarding Afghanistan’s drug industry.

From the press release by the UNODC:

The report also shows that, in addition to supplying 90% of world opium, Afghanistan has become the world’s biggest supplier of cannabis (estimated at 70,000 hectares this year). It is exported mostly through the southern borders, Pakistan and Iran, and eventually into the Gulf countries.

The Global Marijuana Market is valued at $141 billion.