The condemnation of the French Naval Ensign Ullmo to life imprisonment this week on the charge of treason, despite his defense that he was not responsible, owing to opium smoking, has profoundly ...

There are five types of plants prohibited in Indonesia, including marijuana, which falls under the category of narcotics.

Afghanistan’s stockpiles before the drop in opium cultivation may have been worth between US $4.6 to US $5.9 billion, or roughly 23-29 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product in 2023. This ...

"If anyone were in my shoes, they would likely do the same." - Displaced and desperate - Myanmar's opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan, where poppy farming flourished ...

Afghanistan is witnessing a surge in opium prices and the ‘massive profits’ from it are being reaped by criminal gangs, United Nations' drugs watchdog has flagged. But why are opium prices in ...

PEKON (Myanmar), March 11 — Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla ...

The opium weighed almost 14 kilograms and was valued ... Those devastating consequences are not just for the victims who seek and use drugs but also the consequence he now faces,” Shaw said ...