opium producing countries

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• Opium poppy — Papaver somniferum Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae …   Wikipedia

• Opium — For other uses, see Opium (disambiguation). Opium Opium poppy fruit exuding latex from a cut Botanical Opium Source plant(s) Papaver somnifer …   Wikipedia

• Opium production in Afghanistan — Harvested poppy capsules. Afghanist …   Wikipedia

• Opium —    Burma s most profitable cash crop. Opium and its derivatives, especially heroin, generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue annually. Raw opium latex is extracted from the pods of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), which is… …   Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)

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• Opiate — For other uses see Opiate (disambiguation), or for the class of drugs see Opioid. Harvesting the poppy pod. In medicine, the term opiate describes any of the narcotic opioid alkaloids found as natural products in the opium poppy plant …   Wikipedia

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• French Connection — The French Connection was a scheme through which the drug heroin was smuggled from Turkey to France and then to the United States, culminating in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when it provided the vast majority of the illicit heroin used in the …   Wikipedia

• heroin — /her oh in/, n. Pharm. a white, crystalline, narcotic powder, C21H23NO5, derived from morphine, formerly used as an analgesic and sedative: manufacture and importation of heroin are now controlled by federal law in the U.S. because of the danger… …   Universalium

• Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs — Infobox Treaty name = Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs long name = image width = 200px caption = Governments of opium producing Parties are required to purchase and take physical possession of such crops as soon as possible after harvest to… …   Wikipedia

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