Recent news on Opium

Opium Poppies Bloom in Iraq's Lawless South  -  25 May 2007
IraqSloggerIn at least one corner of Iraq’s vast lawless territories, farmers are trying their hand at a deadly new cash crop: Opium poppies.

Middle East: Opium Poppies Flower Again in Iraq  -  25 May 2007
Drug War Chronicle,Ancient Iraq is the source of some of the earliest written accounts of opium poppy production. As far as 5000 years back, the plant known to the ancient

Iran, like the West, has a drugs problem  -  25 May 2007
Daily Times,Iran shares a 900-km border with Afghanistan, the world’s number one producer of the opium poppy which is the key ingredient for heroin.

Chilling out becomes all the rage  -  25 May 2007
Miami Herald,Tonight at Opium: Cash Money Party, hosted by Lil Wayne and Baby; tomorrow T-Pain and Akon host the Konvict Music Party at Opium, while TI, Fat Joe,

Afghanistan’s Naro-Culture  -  25 May 2007
Registan.net,But what else does opium do? Outside the major enforcement zones, which just happen to be in the south—Uruzgan, Helmand, Kandahar, Zabol—opium is weirdly

G-8 security, justice ministers to step up efforts to curb Afghan ...  -  25 May 2007
International Herald Tribune,...have been supporting Afghanistan's National Drug Control Strategy, but there had still been an increase in the production of opium from the country.

Afghanistan, the other war  -  25 May 2007
People's Weekly WorldAfghanistan produces over 90 percent of the world’s opium, and money from exporting it makes up at least a third of GDP. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime

The human cost of drugs  -  25 May 2007
York Press,Much of the opium which makes its way into the heroin that floods Europe is grown in Afghanistan. In the past, crime overlords in that country kept tight

Police seize over one ton opium  -  May 23, 2007
RedBolivia.comThe combat forces seized some 1220 kilos opium in Iranshahr, Sistan-Baluchestan province, on Wednesday morning, the Islamic Republic of Iran Police (IRIP)

Kirk fears gambling is 'new opium of the people'  -  May 22, 2007
Scotsman,GAMBLING has been branded the new "opium of the people" in a Church of Scotland report presented to the General Assembly today.

Experts Say Opium Poppy Pays Off for Taliban  -  May 22, 2007
FOX News...more than 50 percent of Afghanistan's poppy crop for the first time, meaning the province by itself would be the world's largest opium-producing region.

Walking in shoes of the poor  -  May 24, 2007
Toronto Star,To encourage farmers to plant vegetables rather than opium, the Aga Khan Foundation provides them with microcredit financing.

Facing up to Afghanistan's poppy problem  -  May 24, 2007
Reuters AlertNet,The United States is now realising that the opium trade in Afghanistan is a serious obstacle to progress, but it may already be too late to eradicate the

Poppy Fields Offer Jobs as Fighting Rages  -  May 23, 2007
Inter Press Service (subscription),According to the United Nations, about 400000 acres are planted with opium this year. The crop is expected to yield more than 6500 tonnes of opium.

Fighting Terrorism in Afghanistan Means Combating Drug Trade  -  May 23, 2007
NewsHour ExtraAfghanistan is the largest opium producing country in the world. Opium and other illegal drugs such as heroin come from a type of poppy plant that thrives

Opium: Afghan kids gotta have it  -  May 18, 2007
Foreign Policy (subscription)Opium—used for centuries as a painkiller and recreational narcotic in Europe and throughout the world—is now so popular as a village panacea and emotional

Opium seized from two travellers at airport  -  May 18, 2007
Gulf News,Dubai: Customs inspectors seized 27 grams of opium from two travellers arriving at the Dubai International Airport on Wednesday.

Opium in Afghanistan: A bad trip  -  May 17, 2007
Asia Times Online,The opium economy in Afghanistan is a key component of the counterinsurgency campaign, yet remains one of the most difficult issues to tackle.

The Afghan Quagmire: Looking More and More Like Vietnam  -  May 23, 2007
Bay Area Indymedia,With the help of the CIA, the US-supported regime in South Vietnam and Laos shipped opium from Laos to Thailand, making the Vietnam War ground zero in the

Afghanistan opium's child addicts  -  May 17, 2007
Aljazeera.net,Afghanistan remains infamous as an exporter of opium. However, opium use within the country is just as rampant, with perhaps one million addicts in the

Opium at the British Library  -  May 19, 2007
Middle East Online,...city for many years and it was in the august reading rooms of the British Library that he had once declared that religion was the opium of the people.

Major opium seizure in  -  May 17, 2007
Sahara Samay,New Delhi, May 17: The Delhi Police seized heroin and opium with a street value of Rs. one crore in a major drug bust here and arrested four alleged

Under a Sky of Diamonds...  -  May 23, 2007
uruknet.info,Just read that opium is being grown in Southern Iraq. Under the agricultural expertise and auspices of Iran of course. Iraq turning into a poppy field,

Afghan deja vu; Paraguay; and more  -  May 23, 2007
ZNet,With the help of the CIA, the US-supported regime in South Vietnam and Laos shipped opium from Laos to Thailand , making the Vietnam War ground zero in the

Customs seize 27 grams of opium  -  May 17, 2007
Gulf News,Dubai: The customs inspection centre at Dubai International Airport confiscated 27 grams of opium from a suspected passenger on Wednesday.

Afghanistan: opium booming  -  May 16, 2007
World War 4 Report,Opium cultivation has steadily grown in Afghanistan since the US invasion of 2001, leaping from 183000 acres in 2002 to 408000 last year. So far this year,

Opium at the British Library  -  May 18, 2007
Asia Times Online,By Abdul Rahman Azzam. LONDON - One wonders what Karl Marx would have made of it all. Buried in Highgate Cemetery in London, Marx had lived in the city for

US Tries to Stem Afghan Opium Trade, Belatedly  -  May 15, 2007
New York Times,It is a measure of this country’s virulent opium trade, which has helped revive the Taliban while corroding the credibility of the Afghan government,

Drug addicts vomit out their ills in Thai monastery  -  May 23, 2007
ReutersHowever, the military rulers of the day, keen to rid the capital of its opium dens, encouraged them to accept a large plot of land in return for taking care

Afghans hit hardest by biggest opium crop  -  May 12, 2007
Guardian Unlimited,Afghanistan is hooked on opium. The drugs trade has become the largest employer, its biggest export and the main source of income in a land devastated by

Countries mull drug-control measures  -  May 22, 2007
China Daily,China is considering further cooperation with other Greater Mekong subregional countries to eradicate opium poppy cultivation within the notorious Golden

Canada stays out of Afghan opium poppy harvest  -  May 12, 2007
CTV.ca,Afghanistan is on the verge of harvesting its latest record opium crop, and Canadian troops are staying out of the way. "We have nothing to do with poppy

Interview with Opium for the Masses, an Intelligent Band for ...  -  May 13, 2007
American Chronicle,Recently I got an invite from the band Opium for the Masses and as soon as I checked out their MySpace page, I knew I had found kindred spirits.

Punjabi singer Gurmit Nagra arrested with 4 Kg opium  -  May 11, 2007
PunjabNewsline.com,JALANDHAR: An upcoming Punjab singer Gurmit Nagra was friday arrested by Punjab police on the charges of smuggling of opium and recovered four kilogram

AFGHANISTAN: Higher pay rates for poppy workers in volatile south  -  May 21, 2007
Reuters AlertNet,Afghanistan produces more than 90 percent of the world's heroin, according to the UNODC, and Helmand alone produces over 35 percent of the country's opium.

Current strategy is sound  -  May 21, 2007
Yahoo! News•The price of opium on the legal market is $16-$49 per kilo vs. roughly $138 per kilo on the illegal market. Afghan farmers would have no incentive to

G8 justice, interior ministers meet in Germany  -  May 23, 2007
Xinhua,The meeting will also focus on combating opium cultivation in Afghanistan which is believed to finance terrorist groups.

NATO yanks message on opium crops  -  26 Apr 2007
Los Angeles Times,The North Atlantic Treaty Organization said it had withdrawn a radio message telling Afghan farmers that its troops would not destroy their opium fields,

Opium Black: The Pusha Man  -  26 Apr 2007
AllHipHopThe reason being, is 27 year old Opium Black, born in Brooklyn New York; this MC now makes Hartford CT. his home. Being the blood cousins of the legendary

Drugs barons to hang in museum  -  26 Apr 2007
Highland News,As early as 1818 he began to smuggle Indian opium into China in exchange for tea, and 10 years later went into partnership with fellow Scot William Jardine,

ROCK WASHINGTON, DC NOW: FDA, SUPPLEMENTS AND SO-CALLED HATE CRIME ...  -  26 Apr 2007
NewsWithViews.com,..."More than 40 years later, Congress enacted a federal drug law designed to make criminal the possession of contraband drugs like opium.

Morphine affects brain's synapse process  -  26 Apr 2007
Science Daily (press release)In US legal context, narcotic refers to opium, opium derivatives, and their semi-synthetic or fully ... > full article

ENSLAVED, KILLING JOKE Members Join Forces In DREAM OF AN OPIUM ...  -  Apr 24, 2007
Blabbermouth.net,DREAM OF AN OPIUM EATER's official bio reads as follows: "Back in the old days, a pianist usually accompanied screenings of silent films.

Police seize over 60 kilograms of opium from junta alliance group  -  Apr 24, 2007
Mizzima.com,April 24, 2007 - In a surprise raid on Sunday, police in northern Shan state seized over 60 kilograms of opium from an anti-terrorist group in Pansae

US Working to Pop Afghanistan’s Drug Market Bubble  -  Apr 25, 2007
PressZoom (press release),2007 – The United States has a “five-pillar� plan to counter the Afghan narcotics industry, which supplies about 93 percent of the world’s opium and has

Opium funds Taliban operations, hurts Afghan economy, Fallon Says  -  Apr 21, 2007
PakTribune.com,WASHINGTON: The illicit, but lucrative, opium trade is helping to finance Taliban operations while placing a stranglehold on Afghanistan's economy,

Myanmar nets 322 people in 217 drug-related cases  -  Apr 24, 2007
Monsters and Critics.com,Soldiers, police and customs officials seized 94 kilograms of opium, 1.4kgs of heroin, 3kgs of opium oil, 5kgs of low-grade opium, 28kgs of marijuana,

Back to poppy growing  -  Apr 25, 2007
Montreal Gazette (subscription),In 2001, before the NATO invasion, a 12-member team from the UN Drug Control Program spent two weeks searching most of Afghanistan's largest opium-producing

Opium Funds Taliban Operations, Hurts Afghan Economy, Fallon Says  -  Apr 20, 2007
Blackanthem.com,Blackanthem Military News, WASHINGTON, DC – The illicit, but lucrative, opium trade is helping to finance Taliban operations while placing a stranglehold on

Opium, Drug Use Drive Second Wave of AIDS Pandemic  -  Apr 20, 2007
Berkeley Daily Planet,This wave is driven, in part, by record world levels of opium production, particularly in Afghanistan, and is compounded by the virtual absence of effective

US Working to Pop Afghanistan's Drug Market Bubble  -  Apr 24, 2007
The Conservative Voice,2007 – The United States has a "five-pillar" plan to counter the Afghan narcotics industry, which supplies about 93 percent of the world's opium and has

From opium to outsourcing  -  Apr 21, 2007
Salon...it was alleged, originally came not just from the cotton trade, but also from shipping opium to China in cahoots with the British East India Co.

We Love Cell Phones  -  Apr 25, 2007
Strategy PageApril 25, 2007: The Taliban have been easier, than expected, to track down because of the flourishing opium trade in Afghanistan.

Farmers in grip of opium ‘curse’  -  Apr 19, 2007
Calcutta Telegraph,The produce in question is opium, which the villagers process from the poppy they cultivate illegally in several hectares in Chatra.

South Beach's Opium plans Las Vegas venues  -  Apr 18, 2007
Miami Herald,South Beach's Opium Group is opening a nightclub in Las Vegas, the latest South Florida entrepreneur to branch out into Sin City. BY CHRISTINA HOAG

Canadian-funded canals help poor Afghans grow food and ...  -  Apr 18, 2007
ChronicleHerald.ca,KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Opium poppies blooming in the fields of Kandahar’s Zhari district are being irrigated with canals paid for by Canadian taxpayers.

Poppy threat to Arunachal Pradesh  -  Apr 22, 2007
NDTV.com,The poppy pods are cut with a blade and the latex is collected in a can, which contains opium. Each of the cans sell for Rs 100 and when smeared on cloth,

Remarkable decrease of poppy cultivation and opium production in ...  -  Apr 14, 2007
MRTV-3,It can be seen that poppy cultivation and opium production declined remarkably in the period of implementing the border area development plan.

Simple steps minimize risk of coming down with traveller's diarrhea  -  Apr 23, 2007
Vancouver Sun (subscription),The best preparation is deodorized tincture of opium (DTO), a concentrated extract. Ask your doctor to prescribe an ounce or so in a dropper bottle.

Police Make Big Opium Bust In Winona County  -  Apr 14, 2007
WKBT,A Goodview, Minnesota man is in custody after authorities seized thousands of dollars worth of opium and dozens of guns from his home.

Afghani FM: Terrorism, guns and opium are the three challenges for ...  -  Apr 14, 2007
Payvand,TEHRAN, Apr.14 (ISNA)-Foreign minister of Afghanistan stated that terrorism, guns and opium were the three areas of challenge that Afghanistan faced today.

Police make huge opium bust in Winona area  -  Apr 12, 2007
Post-Bulletin,GOODVIEW -- A drug-sniffing dog's discovery of opium in a package in Hawaii bound for Goodview has led to what authorities call the biggest opium bust in

Taliban Taxes Opium To Fund Insurgency  -  Apr 12, 2007
Tampa Tribune,CHINAR, AFGHANISTAN - When the Taliban ordered Afghanistan's fields cleared of opium poppies seven years ago because of Islam's ban on drugs,

Goodview man arrested in opium bust  -  Apr 11, 2007
Winona Daily News,Local and federal authorities raided a Goodview home this week and seized drugs, cash and loaded guns in what is the first Winona County opium bust in

Police Find Large Amounts of Opium  -  Apr 12, 2007
KTTC,This is the first opium bust of this size to come out of the county. And Goodview's police chief is calling it quite a shock to have this relatively

Opium and Heroin Production Still Huge in Afghanistan  -  Apr 10, 2007
ABC NewsThe United Nations and the Afghan government have estimated the total export value of Afghanistan's opium in 2005 at 2.7 billion dollars, equivalent to 52

Goodview Man Charged In Opium Bust  -  Apr 12, 2007
WCCO,Winona County Attorney Chuck MacLean says an estimated 400 grams of opium was seized along with more than $70000 in US currency. The officers also seized

Police make huge opium bust in Goodview  -  Apr 11, 2007
Post-Bulletin,GOODVIEW -- A drug-sniffing dog's discovery of opium in a package bound for Goodview has lead to the biggest opium bust in Winona County history.

Taliban reaping opium profits  -  Apr 11, 2007
Baltimore Sun,CHINAR, Afghanistan // When the Taliban ordered Afghanistan's fields cleared of opium poppies seven years ago because of Islam's ban on drugs,

Federal Agents Nab Opium Seller  -  Apr 11, 2007
WEAU-TV 13,A man from Goodview, Minnesota is in the Winona County jail on $75000 bond after federal agents say he received almost a pound of opium in the mail.

A Record Opium Bust For Winona County  -  Apr 11, 2007
NewsTalk 1410 AM,On Monday Winona police cuffed a guy in the largest opium bust in county history. The investigation started at a post office in Hawaii.

Goodview man charged in opium bust  -  Apr 12, 2007
WKBT,Winona County Attorney Chuck MacLean says an estimated 400 grams of opium was seized along with more than 70-thousand dollars in US currency.

From opium to art - Mind the bats  -  Apr 9, 2007
Shanghai Daily,The lane buildings were reportedly used for opium storage in old Shanghai, though probably not as opium dens as some claim. The old structures, like any

LAHORE LAHORE AYE: Lahore’s vanished watering holes  -  Apr 21, 2007
Daily Times,Before Pakistan’s formation, there used to be government-licensed shops in Lahore, as elsewhere, selling liquour and opium. And while it was an offence to

Opium aura surrounds lane turned artist haven  -  Apr 8, 2007
Shanghai Daily,Liv Li, who has a studio at 696 and is co-curator of the Duolun show, said the place was "once almost turned into an opium den by a rich man surnamed Chen

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