Poppy
in example sentence
In September, the United Nations Office on Drugs Crime announced that
poppy
cultivation soared by a record-high 60%.
More example sentences with word poppy
Eighty to 90 percent of the world's poppy, opium and heroin, comes out of Afghanistan.
Ancient medical texts from Egypt, Asia and the Middle East all describe early anesthetics containing things like opium poppy, mandrake fruit, and alcohol.
Starving farmers, if unassisted, may return to cultivating a very reliable cash crop: the opium poppy, long a staple of the warlord economy.
That, at least, was the idea behind a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded
poppy
eradication program in Afghanistan.
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