Poppies

Walmart Workers Call Cops On Veterans On Memorial Day

Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Walmart, Video, Memorial Day, Walmart Veterans, Business News, Poppies, Memorial Day Commemoration, Walmart Veterans Memorial Day, Slideexpand, Veterans, Business News

Some veterans didn’t quite get the respect they deserved this Memorial Day. Walmart employees at a store in Elizabethtown, N.C.called the police...

Read Whole Story

U.N. Reports Sharp Rise In Opium Production In Afghanistan

The New York Times | JACK HEALY | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, United Nations, Poppies, Drugs, Afghanistan Opium, Opium, Poppy Production, Afghanistan War, World News

Despite increased efforts to destroy fields of opium poppies and wean Afghan farmers off the country’s biggest cash crop, poppy cultivation in Afgha...

Read Whole Story

Afghanistan's Opium Wars: Amazing Photos From 'National Geographic'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Use, National Geographic, Afghan War, Opium, Slidepollajax, Afghanistan, Poppies, Afghanistan Drug Use, Afghanistan Peace, Afghanistan War, Slidefullscreen, World News

The February issue of National Geographic takes an in-depth look at Afghanistan's opium wars. As writer Robert Draper discovers, a key step to securin...

Read Whole Story

PHOTOS: 7 Unexpected Uses For Flowers

Huffington Post | Alden Wicker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Clothing, Stinging Nettle, Carnation, Rose Petals, Snowdrop, Snow Crocus, Flowers, Poppies, St. Johns Wort, Marigolds, Ageratum, Abor Vitae, Pansies, Yarrow, Corpse Flower, Recipes, Purple Coneflower, Bee Balm, Monkshood, Prank, Chamomile, Opium, Cyclamen, Deer-Repellent Flowers, Medicinal Properties, Poppy, Rabbit-Repellent Flowers, Amorphophallus Paeoniifolius, Joke, Heroin, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Passionflower, Uses for Flowers, Edible Flowers, Dandelion, White Horse Flower, Salvia, Kaiser?S Crown, Meaning of Flowers, Squash Blossom, Lobelia, Aconite, Echinacea, Squirrel-Repelling Flowers, Mauve Lilac, Allium, Nature, Green News

In their brief but expensive life, flower arrangements are often seen as impractical and even a waste of money. But flowers have a long and rich histo...

Read Whole Story

Graphic Shows Complexity Of US Counterinsurgency In Afghanistan

Checkpoint Kabul | McClatchy | Dion Nissenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghan War, Coin, Afghanistan, Kabul, Poppies, Drugs, Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Taleban, Counterinsurgency, World News

For a good example of how difficult it will be for the US military to regain the momentum in Afghanistan, check out this graphic on the military count...

Read Whole Story

Afghanistan Elections Could Hinge On Provincial Poppy Production

The Washington Post | Pamela Constable | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sell Poppies, Poppy, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Opium, Elections in Afghanistan, Afghan Elections, Poppies, Make Opium, Opium Production, Drug War Afghanistan, Drugs Afghanistan, Opium, National Elections Afghanistan, Afghanistan Elections, Faizabad, Poppy Fields, World News

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan -- The economic fortunes of Badakhshan province, a remote and wildly beautiful corner of far northeastern Afghanistan, have rise...

Read Whole Story

The Freeing of Afghan Poppies

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poppies, Taliban, Afghanistan, Drug Enforcement Administration Afghanistan, US Marines Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, US Marines, Home News
Stewart Nusbaumer

For years we have been hearing about a crop eradication program that does not exist. How many more years will it be before we hear about a crop substitution program that could exist?

Read Post