A field of poppy plants that could be used to make opium was discovered in North Carolina and had an estimated value of $500 million, a sheriff says. Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid said the only ...

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GET IT ON G E T I T O N An acre-wide opium poppy field plant discovered in Catawba County, N.C. WBTV CLAREMONT, N.C. (CBS) A field of poppy plants that could be used to make opium was discovered ...

Sow your opium poppies - used to make medical painkillers including morphine, codeine and oxycodone, as well as illegal ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A man was arrested in Fresno after police reported finding illegally owned firearms and multiple opium poppy plants and marijuana plants. The Fresno Police ...

The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum ... There are many varieties of this poppy species. Colors of the flower vary widely, as do other physical characteristics (number and shape of petals, number ...

British authorities did not annex the region until the early 1800s, and when they tried to protect their monopoly by banning opium farming, the poppy defied them: Flowers continued to grow ...

the opium or breadseed (Papaver somniferum); and the Iranian, Persian or the great scarlet (Papaver bracteatum). A picture of the Iranian poppy. This was one of the plants confiscated by ...

The legal production of opium uses a different method called the poppy straw process. It’s done by extracting chemicals called alkaloids from dried, mature poppy plants. Opium vs. heroin Opium ...

Again, poppy flowers are weeds, technically ... charms and in the making of opium. The opium poppy plant’s seeds can produce a milky substance that was then used in opium for different drugs.

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was down sharply last year, according to the United Nations and private sources, but the plants are being grown in most provinces despite a ban imposed by ...