The Role of Religion in the Golden Crescent

In the late 1970s, due to the dry weather, the opium harvest in the "Golden Triangle" region of Southeast Asia failed, and the demand for drugs such as heroin on the black market was in short supply, and the price soared. At this time, the "Golden Crescent"

Some poppy growers seized the opportunity of rising drug prices, expanded their planting area and entered the traditional overseas market of the "Golden Triangle". It is an important producer of opium drugs in the world, second only to the "Golden Triangle".

198 1 year, the opium production in the "Golden Crescent" area reached more than 800 tons, twice the total opium production in the "Golden Triangle" and Mexico. However, since 1986, opium production in the "Golden Triangle" has recovered rapidly, with a sharp increase in output, once again replacing the "Golden Crescent".

Become the world's number one heroin producer. Despite this, the opium production of the "Golden Crescent" has developed rapidly, and it has always maintained the second position in opium and heroin production.

At the end of the 20th century, due to ethnic conflicts, religious conflicts and wars, the "Golden Crescent" drug economic circle rose again, making it replace the "Golden Triangle" and become the largest opium drug producer in the world.

This is an introduction, from which we can see that religious contradictions make the Golden Crescent replace the Golden Triangle.