their peach trees dried out from the inside and had to be cut down, Jalal said, and the experimental grapevines became sunburned. The farmers’ difficulties bode ill for an opium ban that ...

BANGKOK — The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military's seizure of power, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third in the past year as eradication efforts have ...

Credit: Mick Richards For her most recent series, The Magna Carta Tree, Foley recreated an opium den in an imagined version of what existed in Maryborough, where she was born. The series was shot ...

JERUSALEM, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Opium traces have been discovered in Israel in vessels used in burial rituals by the ancient Canaanites, providing one of the world's earliest evidences of use of ...

Myanmar has become the world’s biggest producer of opium, overtaking Afghanistan after the ruling Taliban imposed a ban on poppy cultivation, according to a new United Nations report. The ...

File photo of man working in a poppy field in Myanmar's Shan state The production of opium increased sharply in Myanmar, rising to a nine-year high, according to the UN. It touched nearly 795 ...

Bronze Age humans living in the Levant may have getting high on psychoactive drugs, according to a new study that found traces of opium in 3,500-year-old ceramic vessels from Tel Yehud ...

A case in point is the small instrument of ancient Asian tradition that, in popular parlance, became known as the "opium scale" in the late 19th century, as the use of opium for recreational purposes ...

VIENNA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban ...

There, he was involved in the cotton trade, later expanding to trade Indian opium with China. An intricate ornamental ivory casket gives form to the family’s opium-fueled wealth and sets the ...