The last of July or early in August is a good time to sow the seed, as the plants stand the winter without injury. The single poppy he found to yield more opium than the double, and there is less ...

The opium, which finds its way to European and American ... will answer well for its cultivation, and what quantity of seed will do for a given quantity of land. We see no reason to doubt, that ...

The bricks of opium that he wrapped in plastic and took to the market would pay for all the food his family needed. In addition, the farmer would use the seeds to make cooking oil and burn the ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Two years after the Taliban banned opium, Afghan farmers turning ... appealing to other countries to supply modified seeds that are hardy enough to grow here.

Hospitals use drug tests that return false positives from poppy seed bagels and Zantac. Yet newborns are taken from parents ...

Three years after the ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, formerly the world’s largest heroin producer, the global trade ...

A Taliban spokesman told the BBC they imposed the ban because of the harmful effects of opium - which is taken from the poppy seed capsules - and because it goes against their religious beliefs.

Makowiec is a scandaliser. Its high content of poppy seeds is responsible for a reputation for putting morphine into your system. As you probably already know, poppies are what opium, morphine and ...

In Amitav Ghosh's acclaimed novel, Sea of Poppies, a village woman from an opium-producing region in India has a vivid encounter with a poppy seed. "She looked at the seed as if she has never seen ...

The expository narrative delves deep into the disastrous sequel that the labor-intensive production of opium and the ...

The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan ’ s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...

That shouldn’t have been surprising — poppy seeds, like the ones in Horton’s salad, are derived from the opium poppy plant and contain codeine. To differentiate between salad dressing or ...