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The Cultivation of the Opium Poppy in India |
| July 13, 2001
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A detailed study on the history of, and practices and techniques used in Opium Poppy cultivation throughout India.
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Effects of Vegetation Cycle on P. Somniferum |
| July 13, 2001
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Poppy cultivars of different origin were investigated in long-term experiments. The production ability of plants was established with both spring and autumn sowing, using different plant spacing (20 cm x 20 cm and 50 cm x 20 cm).
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An Introduction to the Opium Poppy |
| July 13, 2001
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This first article for the new Botany section of the Library contains a fairly detailed botanical introduction to the species Papaver Somniferum, aka the Opium Poppy.
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Taliban Poppy ban and Afghan refugees |
| July 13, 2001
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Afghan high officials on Narcotics and refugees affairs have held meetings with Afghan support group ambassadors in Islamabad to discuss drugs and refugees situation resulting from the Taliban's ban on poppy cultivation.
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T&M Debacle Caused by Nosey Customs Agent |
| July 11, 2001
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As you may already know, Thompson & Morgan has stopped selling seeds of opium poppies to its U.S. customers. It's the latest skirmish in the opium poppy war, in which U.S. gardeners who grow these cottage garden favorites are committing a federal crime.
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Town Wants Fingerprints for Painkiller |
| July 10, 2001
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Six pharmacies will soon be able to ask customers wanting the powerful painkiller OxyContin and some other narcotic drugs to provide their fingerprints. This War On Drugs nonsense is just way out of hand -- making patients get fingerprinted just so they can get their medications? Rediculous.
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Couple working to weaken opium's grip |
| July 9, 2001
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Clark University graduate Robert J. Bouvier likes to joke that he and his wife, Ioana, met over opium.
Their initial meeting wasn't quite that exotic, though their work has an international flair: The two share a deep understanding of the grim influence opium cultivation has on the lives of villagers in a northeastern region of Myanmar, formerly Burma.
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Burma Picking up Afghanistan's Slack |
| July 9, 2001
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That's right folks, the Burmese drug lords are back in full swing. Until the Taliban banned its cultivation last year, the fields of arid Afghanistan were filled with opium poppy—75 percent of the world’s supply. The elimination of this year’s crop has naturally driven up prices for opium paste and its derivative, heroin, across the world. Down along the Thai-Burma border, where ethnic Wa militias have been churning out ya ba (“crazy drug”), or methamphetamine, pills for the Thai market, the locals are rushing to fill the gap.
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