poppy seeds are the seeds of a poppy flower—specifically the papaver somniferum. This variety, also known as a breadseed or ...

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

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

Aung Naing was a reformed opium farmer. But wartime hardship forced him back to the crop. "There is more poppy cultivation ...

For those displaced by relentless conflict in the world’s biggest producer of opium, poppy farming offers a fragile lifeline.

Opium poppies are legal in the United States ... in DC against federal plans to privatize USPS All parts of the poppy plant are controlled under Schedule II of the federal Controlled Substances ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers. Meanwhile, Myanmar registered growth in cultivation and production from 2021 through 2023, which UNODC ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote ... "Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich, but we are just trying hard to get by," he told AFP in rural Pekon township ...

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