This week, the Taliban announced that more than 100 people were arrested in northeastern Afghanistan for allegedly growing opium poppy. The arrests were made in a region that had previously defied ...

Opium poppy plants can be refined to form the the basis for several highly addictive drugs, including heroin. Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium, according to the United Nations ...

On the contrary, Vermont opium is condemned as being merely an extract of poppy leaves and stalks, with a little true opium juice, very variable in composition, and wholly unfit to replace the ...

A conundrum still looms for the poppy farmer: Opium is haram ... "It depends on what the local government does after the military leaves," he tells me. "If they leave us alone, then I'll grow ...

Luang Namtha police clear 9 hectares of opium poppies. Authorities in Viengphoukha district, Luang Namtha province, have cut ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kangpokpi district reported the largest area under illegal opium poppy cultivation in Manipur at 17.49 square kilometres (sqkm), or 4,322 acres, in 2023-24, Union Minister for Environment ...