CATAWBA COUNTY, NC (WSPA) – Deputies in Catawba County, North Carolina arrested a man after they found a field with nearly an acre of opium poppy. The Catawba County Sheriff’s Office arrested Cody ...

Edmonton police have charged four men in connection to an opium poppy seizure, which police say is worth between $160,000 and $500,000. Police executed a search warrant in July on a property in the ...

It is believed that mankind has been utilizing opium poppies for recreational and medicinal uses dating as far back as 7,000 B.C., according to a new book, "Opium: How An Ancient Flower Shaped And ...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday the government is studying what to do about growers of opium poppies who have been hit by competition from synthetic opioids, suggesting that ...

CHILLIWACK, B.C. – Mounties have wiped out a field of opium poppies in B.C.’s Fraser Valley in a first-of-its kind drug bust that’s also revealed a much larger problem within the South Asian community ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MADRID (AP) — Spanish police announced Saturday they arrested three men on suspicion of shipping dried opium poppy capsules by ...

Swans that became addicted to eating opium poppies have been forced to go cold turkey after invading a farmer's field. In February, hundreds of swans began arriving at the poppy field near Komárno in ...

The problem began with a flower, a delicate blossom with a slender stalk. It was a fragile-looking plant, with petals as fine as tissue paper, yet it proved to be a formidable opponent. As the ...

CHAM KALAI, Afghanistan (AP) – The seeds flew from his hands into the soil. Wrapped in a woolen shawl against the cold, Khan Bacha sowed his fields with the only crop he says brings him enough money ...

A semi truck allegedly smuggling seven boxes of suspected dried opium poppy plants worth an estimated $58,000 was stopped at the truck border crossing in Blaine attempting to enter Canada earlier this ...