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

Afghan counter-narcotics police have discovered 57 kg of opium and arrested a suspected drug smuggler in Badakhshan province, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Prices for a kilogram of opium increased 70% from $166 to $281, the report found. Usually, opium poppy fields in Myanmar are small, poorly organized, and far from villages and roads, the report said.

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 ...

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.

Narcotics officers say a field of 40,000 opium poppy plants found on a remote hillside above North Fork was an isolated case. State agents found the acre-plus field in Madera County in June after ...