JUQUILA YUCUCANI (Reuters) - In the mountains of Mexico's tropical sierra, an ever-growing expanse of pink poppy flowers has pushed prices so low for opium paste, the gummy raw ingredient of heroin, ...
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In this nature park in Germany, pink poppies are in bloom
Delicately fragrant, vibrantly colored, and rarely seen in Germany: The pink opium poppy is a natural spectacle that can only ...
A vast field of towering white poppies sways gently in the breeze, silky petals sometimes tumbling to the ground, a visible marker of the resilience of Afghanistan's lucrative opium trade. The sight ...
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In defense of opium poppies
I was at a curator’s talk on the current show at the Ashmolean, Oxford’s art museum, yesterday. The exhibition is called In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World, and at the end there were some peppery ...
NUR KHEL, Afghanistan -- The dazzling blankets of purple, crimson and white petals of his neighbors' fields shimmer in the light wind, heralding a hefty crop, but Turialai's plants have only just ...
Part 1. Opium in antiquity. The mysterious origins of the opium poppy ; Papyruses and poppies ; A journey around the Mediterranean. Part 2. Opium and the birth of modern medicine. Classic cures, ...
JUQUILA YUCUCANI (Reuters) - In the mountains of Mexico's tropical sierra, an ever-growing expanse of pink poppy flowers has pushed prices so low for opium paste, the gummy raw ingredient of heroin, ...
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