or Made Into Oil Poppy seeds come from the opium poppy (or breadseed poppy), a flowering plant likely indigenous to lower Mesopotamia (Southwest Asia). These kidney-shaped, speck-sized dried seeds ...

According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...

On the United States Anti-Doping Agency website there is a page dedicated to poppy seeds that explains the seeds can be coated with or absorb a small amount of opium that could cause a positive ...

If Alamogordo was Munchkin land, Dorothy and her band of misfits would travel the White Sands and cross the Organ Mountains ...

STERLING, VA. (7News) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers intercepted a total of 257 pounds of opium poppy pods from Madrid at Washington Dulles International Airport last week.

For farmers displaced by conflict, the hardy poppy is the only thing that keeps them from starving. Read more at straitstimes ...

It was only in the fall of 2022, when farmers wanted to sow the seeds for ... wheat instead of poppies. The yield per hectare for this crop is many times lower than that of opium.

VIENNA: Opium prices in Afghanistan are soaring and handing “massive profits” to criminal groups following a poppy cultivation ban imposed by the Taliban authorities, the United Nations ...

While opium poppies have long flourished in rural Myanmar, production soared following the 2021 military coup and subsequent conflict between the ruling junta and armed resistance groups ...