Dharamvira Gandhi believes that decriminalising organic intoxicants like opium and marijuana in Punjab will help in ...

By hand-harvesting some 10-by-10 foot grids to get an average yield, RCMP now estimate over 60,000 opium poppy plants were being grown on the land. The size of the crop makes it the largest of its ...

In a recent treatise on the history of the poppy, Saunders (2013) reflected on the “opium fields of Afghanistan” – a sad twist on the ‘sea of blood’ metaphor. This is an ongoing tale of two common ...

Cited very often by the Government as one of the factors that triggered the ongoing violent conflict, the War On Drugs seems to have lost all teeth in Kangpokpi district.The Kuki opium poppy planters ...

A Naga village in Manipur’s Kuki-dominated Kangpokpi district has set a four-day deadline for the State government to take ...

A Manipur Police team tasked with eradicating illegal opium cultivation in Kangpokpi district was forced to retreat after it ...

While there is no official confirmation, there is a strong buzz in the security establishment in Manipur of a major operation involving central forces to clear new illegal opium poppy farms.

Mexico City, 1 July – Opium poppy cultivation has significantly dropped for the first time according to a new report published by UNODC and the Government of Mexico last week. According to data, the ...

In a post on Truth Social, President-elect Donald Trump mentioned “an additional 10% tariff” on imports from China in ...