1880s opium trail infected city-folk and pioneers alike, across states and the Dakota Territory From Deadwood, South Dakota, to Bottineau, North Dakota, and east to Duluth and St. Paul, opium ...

According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time jobs to local and migrant workers hired by farmers.

In 2024, opium prices reached ₹65,486 per kilogram, a tenfold growth from ₹6,535 per kilogram in 2022 when the Taliban government banned poppy growing ...

Opium and opium-based products had an ambiguous status throughout the 19th century. , for instance, was a mixture of opium, alcohol and spices and was available as medicine for pain relief and coughs.

UPDATE (06/26): Jordan Brand has officially unveiled its latest Air Ship collab with Opium. In the Instagram post shared by the two entities today, the duo confirmed that the style pays homage to ...

Jaisalmer: About 19kg of opium milk and opium and more than Rs 19.6 lakh in cash were recovered and three people arrested in Lathi and Bhaniyana police station areas of Jaisalmer district in a ...

The Thai towns of the notorious Golden Triangle are taking advantage of their opium-producing history with attractions centred on the drug and military leaders who fought over it.

MARSAC didn't find opium poppy fields in Noney district in 2021-22; however, the remote sensing agency detected 132 acres in Noney in 2022-23. Ukhrul had 1,729 acres of opium poppy cultivation.

Opium, its trade and the wars that it caused, were the subject of Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy. Ghosh has now built out from his three-volume study of the ways in which Britain provoked three Opium Wars with ...

Amitav Ghosh’s Reckoning With Opium His new book, Smoke and Ashes, traces the ravages of British opium on India from the eighteenth century to the present. Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images ...

The opium poppy looks delicate and innocuous. But for Amitav Ghosh, an Indian writer, it is “one of the most powerful beings that humans have encountered in their time on Earth”. Mr Ghosh’s ...

A riveting new history of opium, a lucrative and destructive flower Amitav Ghosh’s sweeping, forcefully written ‘Smoke and Ashes’ covers centuries in the life of the plant ...