A genetically modified opium poppy produces a pharmaceutical precursor instead of morphine and codeine. You have full access to this article via your institution. Plants are the source of about 25 ...

Heroin made from Afghan opium makes up 95% of the market in Europe ... "A few farmers tried to grow poppy in their courtyards hidden behind walls, but the Taliban found out and destroyed those ...

How is opium made? The unripe seed pods of the opium poppy plant hold a milky substance. People make cuts in the pods to let the substance drain out. It’s then scraped and dried, producing ...

GET IT ON G E T I T O N An acre-wide opium poppy field plant discovered in Catawba County, N.C. WBTV CLAREMONT, N.C. (CBS) A field of poppy plants that could be used to make opium was discovered ...

A field of poppy plants that could be used to make opium was discovered in North Carolina and had an estimated value of $500 million, a sheriff says. Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid said the only ...

CLAREMONT, N.C. -- A field of poppy plants that could be used to make opium was discovered in North Carolina and had an estimated value of $500 million, a sheriff tells CBS affiliate WBTV.

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was down sharply last year, according to the United Nations and private sources, but the plants are being grown in most provinces despite a ban imposed by ...

Sow your opium poppies - used to make medical painkillers including morphine, codeine and oxycodone, as well as illegal narcotic heroin - in autumn or spring for a bumper crop in summer ...

The poppy plant has a bitter history in China and the ... like codeine and morphine and is used in the production of the opium. The medicinal value of the plant – for treating coughs and ...

The problem began with a flower, a delicate blossom with a slender stalk. It was a fragile-looking plant, with petals as fine as tissue paper, yet it proved to be a formidable opponent. As the ...