In other words, he proposed that a situation which the American delegate has rightly described as a menace to the whole world should be allowed to continue, undisturbed, pending the leisurely ...

A riveting new history of opium, a lucrative and destructive flower Amitav Ghosh’s sweeping, forcefully written ‘Smoke and Ashes’ covers centuries in the life of the plant ...

Even with a grinding war and persistent droughts, opium cultivation in Afghanistan rose to 224,000 hectares in 2020 from 123,000 hectares in 2009, the U.N. reported.