Sow your opium poppies - used to make medical painkillers including morphine, codeine and oxycodone, as well as illegal ...

Some key steps - and a trip to the garden centre - now, will mean enjoying homegrown produce including courgettes, pumpkins ...

Collectively, the 123 opium poppy pods shipments weighed 295 pounds ... straw, and unwashed seeds. The DEA says opium is a highly addictive non-synthetic narcotic, and that abuse of it may lead ...

The climate of these parts of Asia seems peculiarly adapted to the growth of the species of poppy (papaver somniferum), from which opium is obtained ... and what quantity of seed will do for ...

The last of July or early in August is a good time to sow the seed, as the plants stand the winter without injury. The single poppy he found to yield more opium than the double, and there is less ...

A London-based start-up employs bioprospectors to scour the world for DNA to feed AI models building a digital tree of life ...

Since ancient times, poppies have been used for a variety of purposes and given a variety of symbolic meanings. Red and white ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Philadelphia seized nearly 300 pounds of dried opium poppy pods. Officials said the shipment from Spain arrived in ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan efforts to stamp out opium poppy cultivation are failing because of high prices for the illicit crop, pushing farmers to grow 18 percent more in 2012 than last year ...