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

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 ...

Opium production is booming in Myanmar as displaced civilians reluctantly become poppy farmers to survive the country’s civil ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United States is losing the New Opium War with China. Leaders in Washington, D.C. appear unwilling to acknowledge that a fight even exists. A crisis of addiction in China in the 19th century ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A man was arrested in Fresno after police reported finding illegally owned firearms and multiple opium poppy plants and marijuana plants. The Fresno Police ...

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 ...