photo: Creative Commons / Alvesgaspar
Bud and leaves
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Bishnoi preparing Opium
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Afghans Farmers
photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq
Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the U.N. office on drugs and crime, speaks during a press conference about U.N. survey on Afghan opium in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009.
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The Bund district in Shanghai with the green-roofed Peace Hotel. The hotel was built by a prosperous Iraqi Jew who made his fortune during the Opium Wars trading opium and weapons
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Poppies in an opium poppy field in Panjwai district of Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan
photo: AP / Abdul Khaleq
Afghan farmers collect resin from poppies in opium poppy fields in Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 23, 2008. Helmand province, the world's top opium poppy-producing region, was the bloody frontline of battles last year between international forces and insurgents
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An Akha man smokes a pipe. Although this pipe was described as an opium pipe by the photographer, a true opium pipe requires an external heat source. Still, opium can be smoked by mixing it with tobacco, as in madak and ack ack. - Drugs / ntf1
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These undated file photos provided by United Nations Office On Drugs and Crime show opium blight in Afghanistan.
photo: Creative Commons / Thomas Allom,
View of Hong Kong Island from Kowloon (published 1843). In 1839, the refusal by Qing Dynasty authorities to import opium resulted in the First Opium War between China and Britain
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Dry poppy seed pods, the source of ripe poppy seeds.To some extent harvesting for poppy seeds is in conflict with harvesting for opium.
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A red opium poppy flower used for ornamental purposes.Once known as the "common garden poppy", live plants and seeds of the opium poppy are widely sold by seed companies and nurseries in most of the western world, including the United States.
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A field of opium poppies growing in Afghanistan - Drugs - Heroin /ntf1
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Opium
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Opium
photo: GFDL / Chixoy
Opium poppy
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Black tar opium - Drugs / ntf1
photo: GFDL / HonzaXJ
Opium poppy - Drugs
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opium ball about 200 grams
photo: GFDL / Horli
Opium poppy
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Flowering Opium poppies
photo: Creative Commons / Bentlogic.
Black tar (raw) opium seized in Afghanistan, spring 2005
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Opium crop from the Malwa region of India
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Opium Poppy Heads
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Opium poppy-Drugs
photo: IRIN News / Manoocher Deghat
Afghanistan is the world’s top opium producer, according to UNODC
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A Taliban's militant is seen with an AK- 47 rifle gun, right, as farmers collect resin from poppies in an opium poppy field in Naway district of Helmand province, southwest Afghanistan Friday, April 25, 2008. Helmand province, one of the world's top opium poppy-producing regions, was the bloody frontline of battles last year between international forces and insurgents
photo: IRIN News / : Shoresh Kalantari/UNAMA
Afghanistan produces more opium, heroin and hashish than any other country in the world
photo: Public Domain / William Daniell
View of the European factories, 1805-06
photo: AP Photo / Musadeq Sadeq
Afghans are seen behind poppy fields during a poppy eradication campaign in the Rhodat district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 11, 2007. Afghanistan produced dramatically more opium in 2006, increasing its yield by roughly 49 percent from a year earlier and pushing global opium production to a new record high, a U.N. report said Tuesday, June 26, 2007.
