Afghan counter-narcotics police have discovered 57 kg of opium and arrested a suspected drug smuggler in Badakhshan province, ...

Time will tell. Opium cultivation in the south effectively starts each October, when farmers decide on what they are going to plant. The poppy seedlings remain dormant over winter and begin ...

Afghanistan's poppy harvest, which accounts for most of the world's heroin, is worth an estimated $3 billion a year. Fri, 28 Jun 2024 08:12:02 GMT (1719562322703) Story Infinite Scroll ...

Opium poppies produce a key ingredient for heroin and other opioids. Afghanistan remains the world’s top opium poppy producer, despite the billions of dollars America has put into the country.

A field of poppy plants that could be used to make opium was discovered in North Carolina and had an estimated value of $500 million, a sheriff says. Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid said the only o… ...

Leaders in Tezu unite to fight drug abuse and illicit opium cultivation through community action and government support. The ...

You once had people who grew legal crops such as coffee, maize or melon in certain areas but then specialized in opium poppy because it was more profitable. The younger generation has only ever worked ...

Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, previously the world's top supplier, has plummeted since the Taliban administration banned the cultivation of narcotics last year, a United Nations report ...

People tend to think of the heroin trail as originating in an opium poppy field in Southeast Asia or Mexico -- not in Northern California. In a statement on Monday, the Monterey County Sheriff’s ...

Opiates are nothing new—the opium poppy has been cultivated by humans for almost 5,500 years. But just how quickly and widely the use of poppy-derived narcotics spread across the world is under ...

Nearly 10 pounds of opium poppy pods bound for Dover were intercepted in Wilmington last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. The shipment, which came into the Port of Wilmington from ...