The juice was the raw material for opium. For this reason, workers were gathered and transported on boats navigating the Ussuri river in July when juice collection was at its peak. While the ...

The overall value of the Myanmar opiate economy, based on U.N. estimates, ranges between $660 million and $2 billion, depending on how much was sold locally, and how much of the raw opium was ...

Despite the increase, the cultivation of opium poppies – the source of the raw material for much of the world’s heroin – ...

Schedule II substances include various forms of opium, such as raw opium, poppy straw, opium extracts, powdered opium, granulated opium, opium tincture, opium fluid extracts and opium straw ...