{"id":46677,"date":"2022-07-22T21:51:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/22\/every-part-is-useful-the-man-who-wants-afghanistan-to-swap-opium-for-hemp"},"modified":"2022-07-22T21:51:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:51:29","slug":"every-part-is-useful-the-man-who-wants-afghanistan-to-swap-opium-for-hemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46677","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Every part is useful\u2019: the man who wants Afghanistan to swap opium for hemp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil from the versatile plant makes cannabis medicine CBD and its fibre has a range of uses but the Taliban need convincing<\/p>\n<p>The smell seemed unmistakable, the dried buds looked familiar and the Taliban checkpoint guards, who had never heard of CBD, a non-psychoactive cannabis compound, were disgusted by the pungent cargo of Amin Karim\u2019s truck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said to me: \u2018Aren\u2019t you ashamed of yourself, Haji?\u2019\u201d using an honorific for an older man, as they poked through the piles of hemp headed for Kabul last October.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/22\/every-part-is-useful-the-man-who-wants-afghanistan-to-swap-opium-for-hemp\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil from the versatile plant makes cannabis medicine CBD and its fibre has a range of uses but the Taliban need convincingThe smell seemed unmistakable, the dried buds looked familiar and the Taliban checkpoint guards, who had never heard of CBD, a non&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,886,372,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-cannabis","category-drugs","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46686,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46677\/revisions\/46686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}