An opium poppy farm in Pekon Township in Shan State, Myanmar, in November.Credit...Adam Ferguson for The New York Times Supported by By Hannah Beech Reporting from Shan and Karen states in Myanmar ...

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Opioids such as morphine and codeine are naturally derived from opium poppy plants more commonly grown in Asia ... on products 1924 - The Anti-Heroin Act bans the production and sale of heroin in the ...

33 kg of poppy husk, 10 kg of opium plants, and 10,459 prohibited tablets. Last year, 8.5 kg opium, 128 opium plants, 5.5 kg charas, 82.6 kg poppy husk, 33.8 kg cannabis, 1.22 kg heroin ...

The illicit cultivation of poppy ... plants each year, government surveys reveal that poppy cultivation remains widespread in the remote hill areas of the state. Official reports from the Narcotics ...

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On the one hand, there is the creative corpus of Delfina, who is back in Praxis after her first monographic exhibition in 2022, and who exudes meticulousness in her charcoal drawings of opium flowers, ...

Poppy seeds come from the opium poppy (or breadseed poppy), a flowering plant likely indigenous to lower Mesopotamia (Southwest Asia). These kidney-shaped, speck-sized dried seeds have no narcotic ...

Over the last few months, shoppers have been eagerly snapping up the Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Eau de Parfum ... 150ml bottle thanks to Debenhams’ sale. Sadly the mid-size 50ml and 90ml ...