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The Taliban supported the drug trade while fighting the civil war, to get funds to fight, they stopped it while in power (and got a few hundred million from the UN and US to do so), but nowadays since they're rebels again they're buddies with the growers again.
See for example this report about the Taliban protecting growers, or this one noting that Afghanistan now supplies 90% of the world's opium.
Basically it was all predictable. Any insurgency needs money, and so will commit crimes of smuggling of all kinds (drug, arms, any taxed goods like cigarettes) or at least co-operate with and provide protection to criminal groups.
Sure - I don't doubt that Afghanistan is once again the source of most of the world's opium.
And no doubt the insurgents are involved in trafficking it (or extracting protection money from those who do so).
But I gather the warlords who are running the provinces are also heavily involved - and I think they have had their fingers in this pie for a long time.