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 ...

Sunday, April 6, 2008, Modesto Police Officers discovered a large poppy cultivation being grown in the backyard of a family residence inthe 600 block of Paradise Ave. Poppy plants are used in the ...

The opium poppy looks delicate and innocuous. But for Amitav Ghosh, an Indian writer, it is “one of the most powerful beings that humans have encountered in their time on Earth”. Mr Ghosh’s elegant ...

The problem began with a flower, a delicate blossom with a slender stalk. It was a fragile-looking plant, with petals as fine as tissue paper, yet it proved to be a formidable opponent. As the ...

Despite the U.S. spending approximately $8.97 billion over the past two decades trying to eradicate Afghanistan’s illegal drug trade, it remains the world’s biggest supplier of illicit opium and the ...

The dog named Rogue was working with customs agents at the international mail facility when he discovered the drug. It was in a shipment of 16 embroidered jackets from Laos that was headed for ...