Not caused by UFOs, but by wallabies getting high and doing circle work: It has been found the marsupials are breaking into opium poppy fields and getting high after eating the poppy heads. Tasmania's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Opium poppy buds at an illegal field in Hopong, a town in Myanmar's Shan State, in 2019 [File: Ye Aung Thu/AFP] Opium poppy ...

Pakistani police destroyed opium poppy fields in a remote tribal area of northwestern Pakistan as part of an anti-narcotics operation. Officers used sticks to cut down and uproot plants across several ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Afghan efforts to stamp out opium poppy cultivation are failing because of high prices for the illicit crop, pushing farmers to grow 18 percent more in 2012 than last year, ...

Opium production rose 33% in Myanmar, the first season after the military's violent takeover of the country, a U.N. report released Thursday. This jump signifies enhanced sophistication in farming ...

Taliban rebels determined to keep southern Afghanistan in chaos have teamed up with drug barons against the government and its opium eradication campaign launched last week, officials say. The ...