The country's opiate economy — including the value of domestic consumption as well as exports abroad — is estimated to be ...

For farmers displaced by conflict, the hardy poppy is the only thing that keeps them from starving. Read more at straitstimes ...

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

In late 1914, the fields of Northern France and Flanders were once again ripped open as World War One raged through Europe's heart. Once the conflict was over the poppy was one of the only plants ...

Caught between conflict and survival, Myanmar's displaced communities are turning to poppy farming, fuelling a booming opium ...

The Flanders Fields poppy has become an internationally known and recognized symbol of the lives sacrificed in war and the hope that none died in vain. The American Legion called upon Congress to ...

Eating even a small amount of food containing poppy seed can lead to ... up in their thousands on Flanders fields after the fighting had ceased in World War I, but you might not know this was ...

taken from a line in the poem “In Flanders Fields,” written on the battlefront during World War I by Lt. Col. John McCrae, M.D., connecting the visual image of the poppy with the sacrifice of ...