Dried poppy pods are often considered ornamental, no jokes here. However, they have a much wider range of uses, beyond their aesthetic value. They are used for different purposes – from crafting ...

Australia’s newest opium factory is located, un-signposted as such, in a bland industrial estate on the fringes of Melbourne. Its security controls are like those of an embattled embassy.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers intercepted a total of 257 pounds of opium poppy pods from Madrid at ...

The climate of these parts of Asia seems peculiarly adapted to the growth of the species of poppy (papaver ... the complex compound called opium. The latter is the dried juice of the plant ...