Unlike Texas, which has one of the nation’s most restrictive medical marijuana laws, marijuana has been legal in Oklahoma to ...

For the past 6,000 years, humans have cultivated poppy flowers, including Papaver somniferum, which is one of several species of poppies. They have been at the center of tales both good and bad and ...

An urgent recall has been issued for a batch of poppy seeds that contain “elevated levels of opium alkaloids”. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland issued the recall for the batch of Hosyaushka Mohn ...

Dec 3 (Reuters) - Opium poppy cultivation in war-torn Myanmar has surged to its highest level in a decade, rising 17% in the past year as conflict and economic hardship push more farmers into the ...

Myanmar's opium poppy cultivation has hit a decade-record level, the United Nations said Wednesday, with early indications its heroin output is now being trafficked to Western markets. War-ravaged ...

In an exclusive Washington Post story, reporter Warren Strobel describes a CIA operation in Afghanistan over the course of about a decade. The goal was to degrade the country's opium crop. It has been ...

A new report has revealed that America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was involved in a major decade-long operation that weakened Afghanistan’s opium production. The operation involved dispersing ...

While typically viewed as a spice, the legal status of poppy seeds (Posto Dana) hinges entirely on their viability. Under the Narcotics Control Act, 2018, poppy plants and certain types of poppy seeds ...

VIENNA (Reuters) -The total area of land in Afghanistan on which opium poppy is grown shrank 20% this year, according to a U.N. estimate issued on Thursday, a further drop since farming of the raw ...

When it comes to plants with powerful medical applications Asia can be called the ‘traditional home.’ However, this is not the case when it comes to opium poppies, for new research has shown their ...

EDMONTON — Police have charged four people after 60,000 opium poppy plants were found growing in a field behind a home on the northeast edge of Edmonton. Officers also found evidence the pink ...