Nine opium poppy flower fields have been found on the Central Coast this spring, including one discovered Tuesday in Watsonville. Santa Cruz County Sheriff's deputies were called to a property on the ...

WEBVTT DETAILS. FELIX: MANY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES, -- FOR MANY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THEY’RE ENCOUNTERING POPPY FIELDS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING OPIATES, IT’S A NEW PROBLEM THE SHERIFF ...

Photoperiod is a major factor in flower development of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L. 'album DC') which is a long-day plant. Predicting time to flower in field-grown opium poppy requires ...

An Australian flower farmer was shocked this week when her bed of pretty pink poppies resulted in a visit from the local drug task force. Kate Dixon lives in Tasmania, Australia, and has been growing ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared on Medical Daily. Opioid abuse has become rampant in the U.S., whether the drugs are natural opiates like morphine and codeine (made directly from poppy plants); ...

Hazaribagh, April 19: Some villagers in Chatra’s Giddhore and Pathalgaddha are a disappointed lot. This year, their produce fetched only half the price it was sold for last year because of an increase ...