A new report has exposed how criminals in East Africa are exploiting porous routes in Kenya and Tanzania to traffic drugs ...

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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 ...

Opium is the name given to the milky latex material in the poppy plant that contains alkaloids. The resinous and water-soluble material was originally derived from the mature, ripe poppy seed bulbs.

Opium is a highly addictive narcotic derived from the poppy plant, used historically for pain relief, but now mainly known for its role in producing drugs like morphine and heroin.

Since small and commercial quantity is not prescribed for opium poppy and the cultivation of opium plants is covered under Section 18(c), therefore, Section 37 of NDPS Act will not be attracted in ...

The products made from the poppy plant have made it one of the most famous flowers in history. Botanically speaking, ... poppy remained resilient. Over thousands of years, humans cultivated the plant ...

Trader Joe’s Everything but the Bagel seasoning mix, a pantry item with a cult following in the U.S., has been banned in ...

Washington — 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 ...