Opium production in Southeast Asia has hit record levels, thanks in large part to increased poppy cultivation in Burma’s impoverished, war-torn north. According to a report published by the U.N.

Where does opium come from? The opium poppy grows best in warm, dry climates. Most opium is grown in a long, narrow stretch of mountains in central Asia, an area that starts in Turkey and moves east ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Controlling the opium trade in Afghanistan, the world's leading producer of the drug, is a key element in the fight against Taliban militants. With thousands of U.S. Marines ...

Could Afghanistan’s opium boom be over? Perhaps. According to the latest report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, opium cultivation has crashed in just one year, with prices at their ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Opium nearly smoked out China, made Britain acquire tainted wealth, laid the foundation of the fortunes of many a notorious trading house, and made several early 19th-century ...

Does Egypt’s most famous tomb hide a secret of ancient drug use? For over a hundred years, the alabaster jars in the burial ...

After the mid-18th century, when the British East India Co. was importing tea from China, few could have guessed that the industry would be revolutionized by a different plant: the opium poppy. Over ...

On Oct. 6, President Biden announced pardons for anyone convicted of a federal crime for possessing cannabis. He urged governors to follow suit and directed his administration to expedite a review of ...

It takes some daring to choose opium as your historical protagonist. The milky sap of the poppy flower has taken so many forms across so many centuries that its allure feels like a trap, a chasing of ...

Following a ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan imposed by the de facto authorities, the Taliban, in April 2022, opium production plunged by an estimated 95 percent by 2023 from 6,200 tons in 2022 ...