Southwestern Asian herb with greyish leaves and white or reddish flowers; source of opium.
1Opioids are a class of drugs naturally found in the opium poppy.
2Morphine is an alkaloid from the opium poppy used to treat pain.
3The region is home to sprawling marijuana and opium poppy plantations.
4Experienced gardeners have no trouble distinguishing the opium poppy from its non-narcotic cousins.
5Tea and opium poppy plantations cover many of the surrounding hillsides.
6The opium poppy in particular would have a soothing effect.
7Marjah has since become a breeding ground for both opium poppy cultivation and insurgents.
8The mountains are dotted with marijuana and opium poppy fields.
9Afghanistan is the world's number one producer of opium poppy, the key ingredient for heroin.
10Afghanistan produces nearly all of the world's crop of opium poppy, used to make heroin.
11Afghanistan produces more than 90 percent of the world's heroin from its opium poppy crops.
12The opium poppy and ergot, a lysergic-acid producing fungus.
13Many locals had resorted to farming the opium poppy in the years following the Arab Spring.
14By far Afghanistan's most violent province, it produces the bulk of the world's opium poppy crop.
15However, he said more efforts were needed to develop economic alternatives to the opium poppy in Afghanistan.
16The opium poppy is extensively grown in India, and every year large quantities were exported to China.
Translations for opium poppy