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Here is a source from the New York Times dated May 2001 (months before 9/11).
American experts and United Nations officials say the Taliban are likely to face political problems if the effects of the opium ban are catastrophic and many people die.
I haven’t done an enormous amount of digging into it really, but I’m convinced that having millions of very angry heroin addicts going into withdrawal is something the US would rather avoid.