In 2024, opium prices reached $750 per kilogramme, a tenfold growth from $75 per kilogram in 2022 when the Taliban government banned poppy growing, the Vienna-based UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC ...

I don’t know what kind of poppy it is, but she described the plants as annuals, with large, wavy, blue-green leaves and big, flamboyant blooms. I’d like to grow them as accents in pockets of the ...