An Australian flower farmer was shocked this week when her bed of pretty pink poppies resulted in a visit from the local drug task force. Kate Dixon lives in Tasmania, Australia, and has been growing ...

Opium production rose 33% in Myanmar, the first season after the military's violent takeover of the country, a U.N. report released Thursday. This jump signifies enhanced sophistication in farming ...

There were signs that heroin from Myanmar is reaching markets in Europe previously supplied by Afghanistan, with several seizures over the past year that involved passengers travelling from Southeast ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the country after banning cultivation of the crop, analysis of satellite imagery and reports from the ground suggest.

BANGKOK, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Ethnic groups in northeastern Myanmar have stepped up opium cultivation to buy weapons to defend themselves against possible attacks by the country's military, a United ...

PELLA, Iowa (AP) -- In an area known for its tulips, a rural Pella family has been charged with growing 22,000 opium poppy plants. ``We had never run across an opium grow before, and we really didn't ...

TALBOZANG, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Fifty-year-old Abdul Wadud walked for two hours across Afghanistan's remote northern mountains to hear a police commander give yet more promises of aid for those who ...

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