Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Opium poppy buds at an illegal field in Hopong, a town in Myanmar's Shan State, in 2019 [File: Ye Aung Thu/AFP] Opium poppy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Edmonton police searched a property in July where it was believed opium plants were being grown. Police said they discovered about ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The fields of Balkh province in northern Afghanistan were free of opium poppies this year, a success touted often by Afghan and international officials. But one look at Mohammad ...

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar surged to its highest level in a decade this year as the nation crippled by civil war remains one of the world's primary suppliers of illicit drugs, according to a ...

The notoriety of Papaver somniferum, the “sleep-inducing poppy,” is only partly to do with its outlaw family. Opium poppies are grown for their edible seeds and for pharmaceutical uses. The type that ...

CBP officers bagged this 141-pound load of opium poppy pods on February 19. (Photo: CBP) It must be harvest season after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers intercepted a combined 257 ...

HILO, Hawaii (AP) - Police uncovered a rare find while recently raiding a marijuana operation in Kau area of the Big Island -- a crop of opium poppies. More associated with the badlands of Afghanistan ...

MADRID — Spanish police announced Saturday they arrested three men on suspicion of shipping dried opium poppy capsules by mail across Spain and abroad, including to the United States. The three were ...