Taliban Claim To Have Signed A Cannabis Products Deal With Aussie Firm, Company Says No Idea
Taliban have claimed that they have struck a deal with an Australian company to legally grow and manufacture cannabis products for Australia. Australian medical consulting firm Cpharm has denied these claims. The Taliban had banned the production of opium before the US military invasion in 2001.
The Taliban have claimed that they have struck a deal with an Australian company to legally grow and manufacture cannabis products for Australia with an Australian medical consulting firm Cpharm.
Twitter posts from the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs claimed that Cpharm has agreed to invest more than US$400 million ($625) to set up a hashish processing plant in Afghanistan.
However, in a curious turn of events, Australian company Cpharm has clearly denied these claims.
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"Cpharm is a family business with a 17- member staff from the regional centre of Maitland and has never spoken to the Taliban and has no dealings overseas or involving cannabis," the company told Reuters.
A press release by the company said, ¡°We have become aware overnight of numerous media articles stating that Cpharm in Australia has been involved in a deal with the Taliban to be involved in the supply of cannabis in a cream."
Cpharm further clarified, ¡°We DO NOT manufacturer or supply anything. We provide a medical advice service to the pharmaceutical industry within Australia. We have no products on the ARTG (Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods). We have no connection with cannabis or the Taliban. We have no idea where the Taliban media release has come from and want to assure everyone that it should not be connected to Cpharm Pty Ltd Australia.¡±
Qari Saeed Khosty, a spokesperson for the Taliban, had released details in a Twitter thread about the supposed deal.
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The translation of his tweet reads, ¡°Yesterday, officials from the Ministry of Interior¡¯s Counter-Narcotics Department met with a representative of the company (Cpharm). The company wants to build a cannabis processing plant in Afghanistan, which will create all cannabis products."
He further goes on to say, "In Afghanistan, only this company will be legally contracted. By establishing this factory, Cpharm Company will use cannabis produced in Afghanistan to make spices and a kind of cream.¡±
In 2001, the Taliban had banned the production of opium before the US military invasion.
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