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Among the seized drugs, heroin was the most addictive at 117.007 kg, followed by cocaine at 14.5 kg, opium at 13.505 kg, and 303 gm of ecstasy (MDMA), also known as the party pill.
Source: https://www.canindia.com/in-2022-ncb-struck-big-in-delhi-113-arrests-drugs-worth-rs-940-cr-seized/
An Australian and Iranian man, aged 38 and 41, were arrested and charged in June after attempting to collect a shipment from Iran containing 23 mats which had been soaked and infused with opium.
Source: https://citynews.com.au/2023/opium-imports-on-the-rise-in-australia/
A series where illegal opium trade is at the centre of the conflict, the drama has ceased to hit the crests consistently.
By November 2023, UNODC a 95 percent drop in opium in the country.
Farmers in Myanmar have increasingly pushed into the trade as other economic opportunities disappear, producing 1,080 metric tonnes of opium – a critical ingredient in heroin harvested from poppy flowers – over the past 12 months.
In the beginning that meant the trade in opium and its derivative heroin, but now commercial pursuits are more diversified and include tin and rare earth mining with China being the main market for exports.
Source: https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/kokang-caught-between-myanmar-and-china.html
• Jerwin Kai Dobson, 32, of 139 Vance St., is charged with two counts of trafficking opium or heroin and one count each of conspiring to traffick opium or heroin, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting a public officer.
Source: https://s24476.pcdn.co/news/122203/five-face-trafficking-charges-in-surry
• Jerwin Kai Dobson, 32, of 139 Vance St., is charged with two counts of trafficking opium or heroin and one count each of conspiring to traffick opium or heroin, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting a public officer.
Source: https://s24476.pcdn.co/news/122203/five-face-trafficking-charges-in-surry
Nick said in a tweet at 11.28pm last night (April 2): "That’s it - got as far as the Miss Havisham and Estella opium crack den scene and called it a day.
Source: https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/nick-knowles-gives-up-great-8317730
Profit margins for opium farmers and sharecroppers are modest—perhaps a few hundred dollars per hectare in a normal year—but as our Talib soldier-escort explained, this far outstrips profits from crops such as wheat.
Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/01/taliban-afghanistan-drugs-war-ban-heroin-ephedra-economy/
The Jewish Museum does not hide the fact that much of the Sassoon family’s wealth derived from opium, but it does not reckon with its consequences either.
Source: https://forward.com/opinion/553962/the-jewish-museum-sassoon-sacklers-opium-addiction/
The Taliban decree wasn't applied to the 2022 opium harvest, which according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) increased by a third over 2021.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-65787391?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
“The total 2023 opium harvest could be converted into 24-38 tons heroin of export quality (50 – 70% purity).
Source: https://thefrontierpost.com/opium-poppy-cultivation-declined-by-95-in-afghanistan-unodc/
The violent political turmoil in Myanmar has contributed to the opium production increase.
Source: https://time.com/6358170/myanmar-opium-production-afghanistan/
This after all is a source of big money with the value of opium produced annually in Myanmar reaching up to $2 billion, with much of the drug smuggled out to neighbouring countries and on to the global market.
This opium was forced upon the reluctant Chinese.