Tian Win Nang squats on the hard-packed earth, balancing a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of chocolate-coloured raw opium in each ...

Farmers harvesting opium from a field that was irrigated with a solar-powered water pump in April in Kandahar Province.Credit... Supported by By Bryan Denton David Zucchino and Yaqoob Akbary ...

ANOTHER OPIUM POPPY FIELD DISCOVERED IN MONTEREY COUNTY, THIS TIME ON THE 200 BLOCK OF AROMAS ROAD IN AROMAS, AN ACRE OF POPPIES CAPABLE OF PRODUCIN A POUND OF HEROIN. >> SEE HOW THE MILK IS ...

A farmer in Myanmar shows raw opium at a poppy field in Lone Twel village, Loilen Township, southern Shan state, Myanmar, in 2014 [File: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA] The Golden Triangle – a jungle ...

Anyone violating the ban would have their field destroyed and be penalised according to Sharia law. A Taliban spokesman told the BBC they imposed the ban because of the harmful effects of opium ...

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For decades, farmers in southern Afghanistan relied on opium poppies to make a living in their parched desert landscape. Even as prolonged drought dried out rivers and turned fields so salty that ...

Narcotics officers say a field of 40,000 opium poppy plants found on a remote hillside above North Fork was an isolated case. State agents found the acre-plus field in Madera County in June after ...

SHARIF: [subtitles] The government came and destroyed the opium fields. The smugglers came after us to get their money back. We didn't have any money. I had a girl. She was 8 years old.

Languages: English, Spanish Swans that became addicted to eating opium poppies have been forced to go cold turkey after invading a farmer's field. In February, hundreds of swans began arriving at ...

Sinaloa, the northern Mexican state that spawned the country's most fearsome drug cartel, hopes to lure tourists to rustic cabins in a rugged area infamous for opium fields and violent kingpins.