Opium poppy cultivation and production is labor-intensive ... a chronic cycle of debt for rural families, the opportunity to grow a lucrative cash crop was seen as a blessing by many rural ...

The terrorists’ ability to earn such huge amounts of money and buy modern weapons on the black market as well as to recruit ...

The San Diego Botanic Garden expands its collection of medicinal plants four-fold as scientists learn to harness their power.

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The counter-narcotics police have discovered a huge quantity of illicit drugs in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar ...

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DOGE's work is long overdue and fulfills the goals of a handful of frugal members of Congress over the years, writes Greg ...

According to U.N. estimates, the world faces a financing shortfall of $4 trillion annually to achieve these goals. This is a lot of money; it amounts to more than 6 percent of the total gross domestic ...

Representatives of British plant collectors such as Joseph Banks scoured the nurseries ... which push global dependency on fossil fuels. The opium poppy, he argues, is a ‘historical force in its own ...