by 7News Staff TOPICS: STERLING, VA. (7News) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers intercepted a total of 257 pounds of opium poppy pods from Madrid at Washington Dulles ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year ...

These kidney-shaped, speck-sized dried seeds have no narcotic effects; the opium is no longer present ... "There are several varieties of poppy seeds including blue, white, yellow, brown, and ...

The response is a tangled tale that moves from opium’s use as a sex drug and the varieties of poppy in India to a discussion of the Greek and Arabic etymology of its name. De Orta also tells stories, ...

The economic crisis and war have pushed farmers and displaced people to turn to opium poppy cultivation, despite the meagre earnings. The flow of money finances both the military junta and ethnic ...

which is extracted from the opium poppy. After the Islamist Taliban banned the cultivation of poppies in 2022 and destroyed large areas of crops, global opium production collapsed considerably ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers. Meanwhile, Myanmar registered growth in cultivation and production from 2021 through 2023, which UNODC ...