U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Philadelphia have seized nearly 300 pounds of dried opium poppy pods from ...

Nearly 300 pounds of opium were seized in Philadelphia after arriving from Spain throughout May. According to the U.S.

Only recently has the Afghan government seemed to take stock of the obvious: For the outside world's largesse to continue, the national economy's addiction to opium must end. The poppy fields must ...

More than a century after “In Flanders Fields,” the poppy still symbolizes Memorial Day and is used to honor our fallen ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Philadelphia seized nearly 300 pounds of dried opium poppy pods.

poppy cultivation has practically come to a standstill. For the first time in decades, Myanmar has replaced Afghanistan as the world's largest opium and heroin producer. It would be natural to ...

The climate of these parts of Asia seems peculiarly adapted to the growth of the species of poppy (papaver somniferum), from which opium is obtained ; accumulating in the juice of the plant the ...

The opium-addicted birds have reportedly learned how and when to swoop in on the poppy fields as not to attract the attention of the farmers. Earth.com reports that the clever birds will sometimes ...

You probably know that poppies sprung up in their thousands on Flanders fields after the ... by the booming opium trade attempted to establish an opium poppy crop in the UK. Unfortunately for ...

People in the news. Today, how the policeman's helping the opium farmer in Afghanistan. The president’s critics say democracy's under assault, freedom of speech is being stifled - but amongst ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers. Meanwhile, Myanmar registered growth in cultivation and production from 2021 through 2023, which UNODC ...