PEKON, Myanmar – Scraping opium resin off a seed pod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by ...

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. The pods had a street ...

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