“As recently as the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,” Ghosh explains, “it would take almost an entire year for poppy sap to be converted into usable opium.” The Indian opium industry ...

While your average poppy seeds likely have no intoxicating effects, it is technically possible to get high from poppy seeds — ...

The stalks fly in the air, as does the sap from the poppy bulb, releasing the distinctive, pungent smell of opium in its most raw form. Within a matter of minutes, Abdul and a dozen other men raze ...

Getty Images The production of opium sap, derived from poppy fields, has surged in Afghanistan Afghanistan produces some 90% of the world's opium, which is extracted from poppy resin and refined ...