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 ...

His field contained about $500 million worth of opium-producing poppy plants, authorities said. Xiong is charged with manufacturing a Schedule II drug and trafficking in opium, both felonies.

CLAREMONT, N.C. -- 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 tells CBS affiliate WBTV.

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CLAREMONT, N.C. (AP) - 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 ...

Approximately 160,000 opium poppy plants were destroyed during this operation. At one of the locations, over 500 pounds of opium poppy pods alone were located. The legalization of cannabis in ...

A North Carolina sheriff’s deputy investigating a complaint stumbled across an opium poppy field worth an estimated $500 million, officials said. The plants, which are used to make opium ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...