This article was originally featured on The Conversation. The U.S. Defense Department issued a memo on Feb. 17, 2023, warning service members to avoid eating poppy seeds because doing so may ...

This year, many Afghan poppy farmers are expecting a windfall as they get ready to harvest opium from a new variety of poppy seeds said to boost yield of the resin that produces heroin.The plants ...

These kidney-shaped, speck-sized dried seeds have no narcotic effects; the opium is no longer present once the seeds are formed. Considered a seed and a spice, poppy seeds have been cultivated ...

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan – Mahmad Naim’s cucumber patch is a speck of defiance in a vast landscape of opium poppy fields whose bright green bulbs, bursting with toxic sap, will bring nearly $1 billion ...

Poppy seeds come from the opium poppy plant, which is also the source of opioid drugs. However, in medical settings such as hospitals, the cutoff may be as low as 300 ng/mL.

A field filled with opium poppy plants in 2012 in Marjah, Afghanistan. Heroin is derived from raw opium gum, which comes from opium poppies. (Michael P. Snody/U.S. Marine Corps) ...

Poppy cultivation peaked in 1999, with 225,000 acres sown and 5,050 tons of opium produced, while most of Afghanistan was ruled by the Islamic Taliban movement.

Narcotics officers say a field of 40,000 opium poppy plants found on a remote hillside above North Fork was an isolated case. State agents found the acre-plus field in Madera County in June after ...

These kidney-shaped, speck-sized dried seeds have no narcotic effects; the opium is no longer present once the seeds are formed. Considered a seed and a spice, poppy seeds have been cultivated ...