ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iran’s Kermanshah province is witnessing an increase in opium poppy cultivation, driven by water shortages, limited employment opportunities for farmers, and growing ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Philadelphia seized nearly 300 pounds of dried opium poppy pods. Officials said the shipment from Spain arrived in ...

PHILADELPHIA — A few hundred pounds of dried opium poppy pods have been seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Philadelphia this month, authorities said. According to U.S ...

Tian Win Nang squats on the hard-packed earth, balancing a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of chocolate-coloured raw opium in each hand like a human weighing scales. “Each kilogramme is worth around $250,” ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan efforts to stamp out opium poppy cultivation are failing because of high prices for the illicit crop, pushing farmers to grow 18 percent more in 2012 than last year ...

We are in receipt of inquiries in regard to the cultivation of poppies, and the manufacture of opium ; it having been suggested by certain agricultural journals that there are various parts of the ...

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 ...

Poppies have a deeper association with death and sleep from the opium extracted from its seeds, often used medicinally for pain. In addition, poppies bloom in several colors – such as purple ...

As with most of northern Thailand’s Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) settlements, the village of Arunothai was only given a Thai name once the Thai government began in the 1970s to assert control over ...

The seizures included 99 kg of poppy husk, 12.419 kg of charas, 8.315 kg of opium, 5.750 kg of ganja, 877 grams of heroin, and 10,900 banned drug pills.Anti-narcotics cell teams, crime branches ...

This guide shares smart tips that recreate the monsoon vibe indoors. Monsoon season is here, and with it comes a beautiful sensory experience; from the way the soil smells, to the rhythmic ...