Customs officers at Washington Dulles International Airport seized 81 shipments containing 257 pounds of illegal opium poppy pods.

Some websites tout poppy seed tea as offering health benefits ... exempt from drug control under the Controlled Substances ...

In April 2022, Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities banned all cultivation of opium poppy under strict new laws. Opium is the essential ingredient for manufacturing the street drug heroin ...

However, other parts of opium poppies - from which poppy seeds ... or in an attempt to get high from the product. When brewed in a poppy tea, the seeds' opiate content becomes concentrated ...

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Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

poppy cultivation has practically come to a standstill. For the first time in decades, Myanmar has replaced Afghanistan as the world's largest opium and heroin producer. It would be natural to ...