Neemuch, October 26 (Daily Kiran) : The Indian government’s new opium policy for 2026-27 is set to benefit approximately ...

Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan and Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, both bordering ...

Opium production in Afghanistan, long the world's largest producer, has fallen sharply since the Taliban imposed a ...

"The Opium War is about China, so why does it appear in Japanese history?" "What was the difference between the Edict to ...

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Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Go back to the 19th century and people freely used drugs, tobacco and booze, a far cry from our more restrictive days. A new book explores that stoned time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Afghan men smoke drugs on the side of a highway in the outskirts of Kabul. The price of opium in Afghanistan surged to $750 per ...

The confluence of the Ruak and Mekong rivers sits in a sleepy, broad plain that runs through a historically lawless section of highland Southeast Asia. It marks the three-way border between Thailand, ...

When ancient Egyptians began to grow opium poppies, it reduced their dependence on Middle Eastern opium. Two thousand years later, when India’s Mughal Empire encouraged farmers to grow opium poppies, ...

BANGKOK — The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military's seizure of power, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third in the past year as eradication efforts have dropped ...

Despite the U.S. spending approximately $8.97 billion over the past two decades trying to eradicate Afghanistan’s illegal drug trade, it remains the world’s biggest supplier of illicit opium and the ...