The Taliban are strictly enforcing their drug ban for the third year in a row. As yet this has had surprisingly little impact on global opium and heroin markets. Bitte passen Sie die Einstellungen an.

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 ...

In Badakhshan, chief of police Kintuz appears to be making some headway against poppies. Five years ago the province was Afghanistan's second-biggest opium producer, after the Taliban-controlled ...

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GRANTS (New Mexico): Never mind that everyone calls him Groovy, or that the company he oversees -- Bright Green -- is preparing to grow cannabis and opium poppies inside greenhouses on the high ...

Tokushima Prefecture conducts an annual campaign to exterminate it. They say more than 10,450 stalks of banned opium poppies, including the atsumigeshi variety, were removed across the prefecture ...

Opium is derived from poppies, and the data on cultivation was collected by examining satellite images and by assessments on the ground. The report said opium has accounted for more than half of ...

Findings suggest that the area of land used to cultivate opium poppies grew dramatically and fewer provinces are now seen as "poppy free". China is encouraging it's retirees to spend their savings ...

5. Poppies are needed to make morphine Morphine is created from the milky latex in the seed head of the opium poppy. For this reason, the poppy is featured on the Royal College of Anaesthetists ...

Amitav Ghosh creates a rich, provocative, and eye-opening portrait of the rise of the opium trade. Harvesting opium poppies. There is not a lot of that going on in Afghanistan anymore. (UNODC) MN ...

Notice it specifically states on poppy seeds versus in poppy seeds. Poppy seeds do not contain opium or opiate alkaloids. The milky extract of the seed pod contains the opiate alkaloids. These ...