Opium cultivation in Afghanistan jumped 32% during 2022 despite the ruling Taliban regime's ban on narcotics, according to an annual report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Speaker of the Balochistan Assembly, Captain (retd) Abdul Khaliq Achakzai, took serious notice of the matter and issued a ...

QUETTA: Lawmakers from both the treasury and opposition benches in the Balochistan Assembly expressed grave concerns on ...

This variety, also known as a breadseed or opium poppy, has been cultivated and used by humans for millennia. Ancient Romans and Greeks heralded the plant as a powerful pain reliever.

With Afghanistan's strict ban on opium cultivation under the Taliban, the regional dynamics of poppy production have shifted. Farmers across the Baloch and Pashtun belt of Pakistan - facing poverty ...

This week, a research collective that includes UCSD launched the Mexico Opium Network, taking a socio-economic approach to better understand the country’s poppy cultivation.

Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, previously the world's top supplier, has plummeted since the Taliban administration banned the cultivation of narcotics last year, a United Nations report ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. The U.S. Defense Department issued a memo on Feb. 17, 2023, warning service members to avoid eating poppy seeds because doing so may ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic raged in 2020, poppy cultivation increased by 37 percent. Legitimate pharmaceutical companies also buy opium from licensed producers, who increasingly buy from Indian ...

Six months after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers intercepted Dover-bound opium poppy pods at the Port of Wilmington, officials have seized another shipment. The 3-kilogram package ...

Nearly 10 pounds of opium poppy pods bound for Dover were intercepted in Wilmington last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. The shipment, which came into the Port of Wilmington from ...

Muffins came later, in high school, along with slices of glazed lemon poppy seed pound cake. The seeds work differently in ...