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Amitav Ghosh’s Reckoning With Opium
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIt takes some daring to choose opium as your historical protagonist. The milky sap of the poppy flower has taken so many forms across so many centuries...
Afghanistan no longer world's biggest opium producer, U.N. report finds
CBS News via Yahoo News· 5 months agoBangkok, Thailand — Myanmar became the world's biggest producer of opium in 2023, overtaking...
War-wracked Myanmar is now the world's top opium producer, surpassing Afghanistan, says UN agency
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMyanmar, already wracked by a brutal civil war, has regained the unenviable title of the world’s...
Marijuana legalization has stalled in Mexico, but farmers and cartels are still making big plans to...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMexican marines destroy marijuana crops in Badiraguato in 2009.Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post...
Mexican drug lord claims attack was aimed at him
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn a video posted on social media, a man claiming to be a Mexican drug cartel leader says an attack that killed 20 people including a mayor was in fact...
California could legalize the use of hallucinatory drugs like Peyote. Do you agree? | Opinion
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 9 months agoPeyote is a small, spineless, button-shaped cactus capable of producing hallucinatory effects upon...
Drug gang kills 20 in attack on city hall in southern Mexico
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA drug gang shot to death 20 people, including a mayor and his father, in the mountains of the...
'You sent me to war. Now's your turn to fix me.' How a weed brand is helping veterans
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFor the record: 1:22 p.m. June 29, 2022: What do a bottle of Newman's Own salad dressing, a province...
