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Do Poppy Seeds Really Mess Up A Drug Test? We Asked A Pharmacistpoppy seeds are the seeds of a poppy flower—specifically the papaver somniferum. This variety, also known as a breadseed or ...
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Opium farming takes root in Myanmar's war-wracked landscapeScraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields ... but the hardy poppy promised "just enough for a ...
"My father taught me how to grow poppies ten years ago," he says. "Until this year, I was able to produce 60 pounds of opium from my farmland." Crouching while his fingertips brush against the ...
Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is at an all-time low, but heroin flows to Europe continue unabated
By contrast, most small farmers were forced to turn their opium into cash immediately in order to recoup their outlays on seeds and fertilizer, and to feed their families. They have now lost a key ...
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 ... "Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich, but we are just trying hard to get by," he told AFP in rural Pekon township ...
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