A mob of around 80 people on Friday confronted a security team that went to destroy illegal opium poppy cultivation in Manipur's Kangpokpi district and damaged four vehicles, police said.

While poppies grow wild on the hills, locals primarily cultivate them for opium production, though they are also used in medicine and cooking. Despite efforts by the Lao government to control opium ...

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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 ...

Xieng Khuang authorities last week destroyed over 14,100 square metres of opium poppies in Phoukoud district, cut down opium poppy, smashing the plants with wooden sticks and uprooting them to prevent ...

One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the ...

Authorities in Viengphoukha district, Luang Namtha province, have cut down 15 hectares of opium poppies found growing on 33 plots of land. Officials from the province’s Narcotics Inspection and ...

Keep in mind that field and opium poppies are reported to be invasive in West Virginia. At the same time, know poppies are quite finicky and should not be moved once planted, so choose your ...

Only the previous day, I had seen Fortune’s name in Lucy Inglis’s fascinating book Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium. I checked back and there was just this one reference to “the ...