Sentences with phrase «opium poppies»

The Mexican military seized 60 kilograms (132 pounds) of opium poppies in 2000, according to AFP.

Many of the most widely used opiate painkillers can be produced only from opium poppies (Papaver somniferum).

The ADT program «has spent $ 42 million on more than 680 projects, such as coring trees for climate records; shifting farmers from growing opium poppy to saffron; and assessing the Taliban's potential to generate income from mining in their strongholds.»

Kennedy says that as marijuana reform spreads across the world, a global economy is forming and marijuana production will start to blossom where other commodities are currently grown, such as coffee, fruit, cotton, tobacco and medicinal opium poppies.

On Wednesday, ex-President Vicente Fox said Mexico must consider legalizing opium poppies, while the Supreme Court made a second ruling in favor of recreational marijuana use after a landmark decision in 2015.

But times have changed, and just because opium poppies are a major cash crop in Afghanistan doesn't mean that the next superpowered microchip can't be developed in Brazil or India.

The board then goes on to praise Mexico in the most gushing terms for taking «substantial measures to implement the board's recommendations», «investigating and prosecuting unlawful conduct» and thwarting «the illicit manufacture of and trafficking in drugs in the country, including the eradication of large quantities of illicit cannabis and opium poppy crops».

Clearing for coca and opium poppies fragments the forests that Colombia's birds depend on.

Examining heroin's chemical structure provides clues to the manufacturing process used to turn opium poppies to heroin, but if manufacturers from different regions adopt similar processes, it's harder to tell where a sample came from.

The island's isolation and its small population were the main reasons the federal government granted an exclusive licence to Tasmania to grow opium poppies for legal commercial production half a century ago.

Live video installation, night vision camera, LCD projector, live audio, Night Vision with wild opium poppies and live audio

«A large part of the violence has taken place in this part of the country... is generated by the production of opium poppies,» Roberto Campa, the deputy interior minister for human rights, told AFP in February.

In 1908, Mamie Garrahan faces childbirth aided by her arsenic - eating sister - in - law Kitty, a nun who grows opium poppies, and a doctor who prescribes Bayer Heroin.

«And as a result of that there's been a shift to the cultivation of opium poppies,» which are used to make heroin, Vigil said.

Opium poppies are used to make opium and heroin, as well as morphine and other pain - killing drugs.

Spanish firm Alcaliber supplies narcotic raw materials based on the cultivation of the opium poppy and its transformation into poppy straw.

Founded in 1973, it supplies narcotic raw materials based on the cultivation of the opium poppy and its transformation into poppy straw, as well as the extraction of alkaloids, according to the owner's website.

(The earliest written history of humanity's romance with the opium poppy is found in the writings of the Sumerians dating back to approximately 3300 B.C.)

Chatting during the boat cruise (from left), Brandon Barnholt of KeHE, a leading distributor of natural & organic, specialty and fresh products; Kim Jung, a co-founder of Rumi Spice, which produces saffron products and provides Afghan farmers with an alternative to growing opium poppies; Bill Weiland, CEO of Presence Marketing, who since the early 1990s has been a pioneering marketer and investor in the Good Food sector (that is a Chicago Cubs hat he is wearing); and Chef Paul Virant.

Opiates are drugs that are derived from the opium poppy, and range from some of the most addictive painkillers such as codeine, oxycodone, and fentanyl to illicit drugs, such as heroin.

Opiates, of course, are natural or synthetic substances that bind to opiate receptors in the brain, and are chemically similar to alkaloid compounds derived from Papaver somniferum, or the opium poppy.

But the only viable source of noscapine is opium poppies.

Stanford University bioengineers have figured out a way to make noscapine, a non-narcotic cough suppressant that occurs naturally in opium poppies, in brewer's yeast.

With growing anxieties about supplies of opium poppies, it could be just what the doctor ordered.

The York team had seen previous work by other researchers that showed that giving an opium poppy a particular RNA molecule led a dramatic boost in S - reticuline.

SPRING rains brought a bumper wheat harvest to Afghan farmers this year, and the opium poppies were safely brought in because US president Barack Obama withdrew troops he had sent to destroy drug crops.

Derived from the opium poppy, opioids alleviate pain by binding to opioid receptors in the brain.

Residue analyses show that between 1600 and 1000 B.C.E., people poured opium alkaloids into pots crafted in the shape of the seed capsule of the opium poppy, in what Collard calls «prehistoric commodity branding.»

The opium poppy is no longer the starting point for many street drugs in the United States, where deaths involving natural and synthetic opiates hit 33,091 in 2015.

The only current source of opioids is the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, making production reliant on poppy farming.

One that Purdue was pushing aggressively was OxyContin, which included the semi-synthetic opioid oxycodone, a morphine like drug based on elements of the opium poppy.

Opium is extracted from the Opium poppy, Papaver Somniferum.

Opiods are very powerful pain killers derived from the opium poppy, the same substance from which heroin is produced.

After all, many medications originate from natural sources, before they are altered, patented, and sold, like aspirin from white willow bark, digoxin from foxglove, and morphine from the opium poppy.

(lachryma papaveris; dried latex obtained from the opium poppy) * Some Heroin.

Rather than embed with just one individual or group or take only a drug war framing to the transportation of narcotics, «The Trade» follows a number of different throughlines: the boss of an opium poppy production field, addicts in various stages of treatment, police officials in Mexico City and Dayton, Ohio.

(A current exhibition at London's Cell Project Space marks her first solo in the U.K.) Her works comprise a host of unlikely art materials: herbal remedies, fungi, diet Coke, birth control pills, sprigs of rosemary, opium poppies, assorted vitamin supplements, Kombucha, and pot among them.

Poppy seeds, commonly consumed on bagels, contain harmless trace opiates (that have historically interfered with workplace drug tests), and the DEA has sensibly not attempted to override the Congressional exemption of poppy seeds from the statutory definition of «opium poppy» in the CSA even though natural opiates in themselves are controlled elsewhere in the CSA.

This policy contradicts the 1970 Controlled Substances Act (CSA), in which Congress specifically exempts sterilized hemp seed and oil from control notwithstanding trace amounts of THC, just as poppy seeds which contain trace amounts of opiates are exempted by Congress from the CSA under the definition of the «opium poppy.»

The economy of Afghanistan is between 60 - 80 % dependent on the growing of opium poppies.

You might as well advocate crystal meth over heroin because that meth comes from a lab just down the road while the opium poppies that will be processed into heroin come from Afghanistan.