TEHRAN, Jun 8 - Prominent Conservative politicians, who are competing to become the next British prime minister, have come forward to say how they used banned drugs like cocaine, cannabis and opium .
TEHRAN, December 13 - The Afghan government has increased saffron production by 22 percent this year as part of a plan to create an alternative source of income for farmers dependent on opium poppy cultivation.
TEHRAN, December 13 - Iran’s anti-narcotics police forces have managed to capture more than 4,000 kilograms of opium in the southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, a provincial police commander announced.
TEHRAN, September 05 -Scientists who decoded the opium poppy genome say the breakthrough might improve production of the plant to provide a cheap, reliable supply of pain relievers and other medications.
TEHRAN – Iranian Interior Minister Abdorrahman Rahmani Fazli has expressed Tehran’s readiness to help replace Afghanistan’s poppy cultivation farmlands with alternative crops.
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan reached a record high in 2013 as farmers seek to "insure" themselves ahead of NATO forces' withdrawal next year, the United Nations said Wednesday.