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 ...

"Biochemists have been curious for decades about how plants have evolved to become one of the richest sources of chemical diversity on earth. Using high-quality genome assembly, our study has ...

In the mountains of Mexico’s tropical sierra, an ever-growing expanse of pink poppy flowers has pushed prices so low for opium paste, the gummy raw ingredient of heroin, that farmer Santiago Sánchez ...