Poppy Flowers in Art and Literature. The poppy flower, with its deep associations with sleep, ... like Homer’s “Odyssey,” reference a potion that may have contained opium poppy derivatives, ...

Detail from 'The Illustrated London News', painting of a poppy flower by Hans Simon Holtzbecker, and detail from WS Sherwill's illustrations, in public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, Yale British ...

Nine secret opium poppy flower fields have been found on the Central Coast this spring, including one discovered Tuesday in Watsonville. Skip to content. NOWCAST KSBW Action News 8 at 11 pm.

The Opium Poppy Control Act of 1942 tried to prevent Americans from growing poppies altogether, but it was difficult to enforce, and the act was repealed in 1970.

For the second time in one month, an opium poppy flower field was unearthed in Monterey County. Deputies eradicated a field in Aromas on Tuesday. Skip to content. NOWCAST KSBW Action News 8 at 11 pm.

Eight fields of opium poppy flower fields were discovered in Moss Landing, Royal Oaks, and Aromas. The plants can be converted into heroin. KSBW.

The poppy flower plant produces opium, which is what led the researchers to test the late Bronze Age artifacts for drug residue. Now, their findings are the subject of a new study published in the ...

Afghan officials ceremonially burn a pile of opium in Kabul in October 2014 — even as by that year, the nation’s poppy cultivation grew by some 80 percent. NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers. From 2022 to 2023, Myanmar saw the estimated amount of land used to grow the illicit crop increase 18% ...

The Taliban’s ban has led to a 95% drop in the cultivation of opium poppies, UNODC said last month. Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers ...