In the renewed war against illegal poppy cultivation in the southern Churachandpur district, illegal poppy plants were ...

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 ...

The United Nations have said that the Taleban made an estimated US$100m (£50m) in 2007 from Afghan farmers growing poppy for the opium trade. Opium produced from the plants fuels the insurgency ...

A mob of around 80 people on Friday confronted a security team that went to destroy illegal opium poppy cultivation in ...

You probably know that poppies sprung up in their thousands on Flanders fields after the fighting ... who were incentivised by the booming opium trade attempted to establish an opium poppy crop ...

Opium can be stored for up to 10 years without ... and typically do not grow in the same fields where poppies were previously grown, Bjelica says. It also takes years before such crops begin ...

(5/31/24) A new Tennessee poll has a strong majority for marijuana legalization, a Japanese three-year-old is honored for spotting an opium poppy, and more. Amitav Ghosh creates a rich, provocative, ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Taliban forces work to destroy a poppy field in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, in May ...

A 3-year-old boy who loves plants has been honored by police for finding a banned opium poppy in his neighborhood. Kawamura Yuki discovered a plant with blooming purple flowers in an open area ...