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Opium Poppy - Botanical.com - http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/p/popwhi64.html
A page about the white opium poppy (Papaver Somniferum): description, constituents, medical action and uses, preparations, antidotes, cutivation.
Opium Poppy - Lycaeum.org - http://leda.lycaeum.org/Taxonomy/Papaver_somniferum.404.shtml
Online resources about the opium poppy (Papaver Somniferum): chemicals, preparations, documents, links, images, trip reports.
Hall of Opium - http://www.goldentrianglepark.org/
The "Golden Triangle Park". An new Opium Museum in the North of Thailand, under Royal partronage. The website is a virtual exhibition of the Hall of Opium.
Opium Poppy - Purdue University - http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Papaver_somniferum.html
Info about the opium poppy (Papaver Somniferum): uses, folk medecine, chemistry, description, distribution, ecology, cultivation, harvesting, economics, biotic factors... From "The Handbook of Energy Crops", by J. A. Duke, 1983, unpublished.
Poppies.org - http://www.poppies.org/
News, forum, links related to opium poppies (Papaver Somniferum) and opium poppy cultivation.
Opium Poppy - Erowid.org - http://www.erowid.org/plants/poppy/
Information about the opium poppy (Papaver Somniferum): description, cultivation, history, articles, experiences, books.
The Opium Kings - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/
"Adrian Cowell's 30 years chronicle of Burma's Heroine trade and the rise of warlord Khun Sa." Comprehensive information about Heroine in general (Heroine trade, effects of Heroine).
Cultivation of Opium in India - http://www.ieo.org/opm_mass.html
"Opium for the Masses": an article and a few photos on the cultivation of opium in India.
Future Opioids - http://opioids.com/
Opioids: past, present and future...
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade - http://www.lycaeum.org/drugwar/DARKALLIANCE/ciaheron.html
Interview with Alfred McCoy, professor of Southeast Asian History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; author of 'The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade'.