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... poppy farmers use the same basic techniques when they cultivate the opium poppy . The annual crop cycle begins in late summer or early fall as the farmers scatter handfuls of tiny poppy seeds across the surface of their hoed fields . At ...
... poppy farmers use the same basic techniques when they cultivate the opium poppy . The annual crop cycle begins in late summer or early fall as the farmers scatter handfuls of tiny poppy seeds across the surface of their hoed fields . At ...
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... poppy spread out from its original home in mountainous Yunnan and Szechwan to most of the other provinces in southern and central China . Despite the proliferation of the poppy seed , opium was still an illegal crop , and sporadic ...
... poppy spread out from its original home in mountainous Yunnan and Szechwan to most of the other provinces in southern and central China . Despite the proliferation of the poppy seed , opium was still an illegal crop , and sporadic ...
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... poppy's annual cycle dictates that its planting be de- layed until September . If the land is left unplanted , however , it loses valuable minerals through erosion and becomes covered with a thick crop of weeds . Here it might seem ...
... poppy's annual cycle dictates that its planting be de- layed until September . If the land is left unplanted , however , it loses valuable minerals through erosion and becomes covered with a thick crop of weeds . Here it might seem ...
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The Consequences of Complicity | 1 |
The Logistics of Heroin | 8 |
Home of the Mafia | 15 |
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