We asked Traverse City poppy expert, David Williams, whose home and gloriously lush poppy garden we featured in the May 08 issue of Northern Home & Cottage and is pictured above, for insight. Here’s ...

Four people are facing drug charges after police say a field of 60,000 opium poppy plants was discovered and then destroyed ...

CHAPARHAR, Afghanistan -- Three months ago, a truckload of government workers arrived at Malik Ziauddin's village, accompanied by armed guards. Wielding sticks and sickles, they beat and chopped at ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The fields of Balkh province in northern Afghanistan were free of opium poppies this year, a success touted often by Afghan and international officials. But one look at Mohammad ...

If it were unprofitable to grow opium poppies, few would be grown. The opium question is solved: let chemists discover how to make synthetic opium and how to make it more cheaply than the poppy ...

FOB SHAMULZAI, Afghanistan (May 29, 2012) -- Afghan National Army and 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Soldiers, teamed up earlier this month to locate and destroy several acres of opium poppy fields.

"It was opium poppies that were being grown, which is not typically seen in our country, and the only other time we've really ...