A Taliban spokesman told the BBC they imposed the ban because of the harmful effects of opium - which is taken from the poppy seed capsules - and because it goes against their religious beliefs.

Three years after the ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, formerly the world’s largest heroin producer, the global trade ...

The last of July or early in August is a good time to sow the seed, as the plants stand the winter without injury. The single poppy he found to yield more opium than the double, and there is less ...

The bricks of opium that he wrapped in plastic and took to the market would pay for all the food his family needed. In addition, the farmer would use the seeds to make cooking oil and burn the ...

Hospitals use drug tests that return false positives from poppy seed bagels and Zantac. Yet newborns are taken from parents ...

In Amitav Ghosh's acclaimed novel, Sea of Poppies, a village woman from an opium-producing region in India has a vivid encounter with a poppy seed. "She looked at the seed as if she has never seen ...

“Whole poppy seeds were being sold at Rs 800 per kg in ... a team from Jashipur police station to uproot 5.25 lakh opium grown plants in Bakua and Kukurbhuka villages four days back.

The opium, which finds its way to European and American ... will answer well for its cultivation, and what quantity of seed will do for a given quantity of land. We see no reason to doubt, that ...

This Minecraft 1.21 seed spawns you in a small valley between mountains and cherry groves. There is a village a short distance to the north that you can both loot and eventually turn into a ...

White poppy seeds are not widely available, but you will find them in Indian grocers. Because they’re so small and have a tendency to stick together, poppy seeds are often dry-roasted ...

Buying poppy seeds for cooking or baking is completely legal. However, other parts of opium poppies - from which poppy seeds are made - are considered Schedule II controlled substances ...