Over the past month, significant quantities of ganja, MDMA crystals, and opium have been seized, throwing light on a growing supply chain that spans across states and even international networks.

One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the ...

The Myanmar Opium Survey 2024 issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says that after three consecutive years of growth, the area where opium is cultivated fell by 4% to 45,200 ...

Aizawl: Officials of the Mizoram excise & narcotics department seized 945 grams of raw opium at a location between Zote village in Champhai district and Bulfek village in Myanmar on Tuesday ...

While poppies grow wild on the hills, locals primarily cultivate them for opium production, though they are also used in medicine and cooking. Despite efforts by the Lao government to control opium ...

PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:That the Chinese were buying a little bit of opium every time, and that number was increasing. PRESENTER:'The key to the opium trade was British control of India, 'where the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Soldiers killed ...

Only the previous day, I had seen Fortune’s name in Lucy Inglis’s fascinating book Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium. I checked back and there was just this one reference to “the ...

Ghana has been ranked the 2nd safest place to live in Africa in 2025. This was disclosed by Altezza Travel, a destination management company headquartered in Tanzania. The ranking attributed the ...