A farmer from Zhejiang Province never knew that he could be jailed for cultivating opium poppy trees in his backyard to feed his pigs. Last Thursday, Su was summoned to court because police discovered ...

On Wednesday afternoon, the Loni Kalbhor Police raided and destroyed an illegal opium farm in the Holkarwadi area. Furthermore, the police seized 1,374 opium plants totalling 116 kg, with a market ...

In Afghanistan, opium production is growing like a weed — and nothing, not even billions of dollars of U.S. money, has been able to quell it. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access ...

DARA-I MAZOR, NURGAL, KUNAR, AFGHANISTAN — It is only a short drive into a side valley just off the busy main road between Jalalabad and Asadabad, the capitals of Afghanistan’s eastern provinces of ...

Opium is a highly addictive drug. It’s made from juice extracted from the unripe seed pods of opium poppy plants (the scientific name is Papaver somniferum). Opium is used to make a class of drugs ...