Translation of "Schlafmohn" in English

The Council would like to counter the production of opium poppies.

They can grow opium poppies in this drought.

Unfortunately, poppies grow extremely well in drought.

Poppy seeds are obtained from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L.).

During the 1990s, opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan increased dramatically.

I do not know what world They live, Mr. Poppy...

Opium poppy belongs to the most important medicinal plants of pharmaceutical history.

Besides hemp, opium poppy apparently is the oldest and most common psychoactive plant.

Opium was processed into heroin here for a long time.

In our country we do not grow coca or poppy.

The poppy, especially the opium poppy, is a plant with an ancient cultivation history.

Opium poppies are cultivated in 45 of the 46 districts of the Shan nation.

Abuse of the substance as an intoxicant led to the prohibition of opium poppy cultivation in Germany.

The opium poppy did not reach the Far East until the Middle Ages.

The Greeks and Romans, too, used the opium poppy mainly as a sleeping-inducing and narcotic agent.

Opiates Opiates are extracted from raw opium derived from the opium poppy.

Interestingly, tyrosine is converted by the opium poppy into morphine, and by the peyote cactus into mescaline.

In parts of Myanmar, farmers are trapped by food insecurity compelling them to grow poppies as a cash crop.

The illicit production of the opium poppy, coca leaf and cannabis is the major source of drug traffic.

This meant that intoxicating herbal supplements like henbane or breadseed poppy could no longer be added to the brew.

We must take into account the fact that the cultivation of opium poppies represents a significant source of income in rural areas, where other forms of earning a living are difficult to find.

The illegal production of drugs is tending to become internationalized - this is no secret, and you state this in your report - and it is no longer just a few developing countries which are cultivating and converting coca crops, opium poppies or cannabis in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East or Asia.

The most pressing problems are the non-existent or minimal security in many regions, the potential for conflict inherent in the unbroken military might of warlords, governors and drug traffickers; the disarmament process has ground to a halt, it is proving difficult to demobilise soldiers from the private armies and reintegrate them into society, the Taliban are regrouping in some parts of the south and south-east of the country and there has been a dramatic increase in opium poppy cultivation and in drug trafficking.

There is also the problem of the illicit cultivation of cannabis and opium poppies for the CIS markets and limited government eradication of illicit narcotic crops.

The army, the police and the law enforcement agencies need to work together with all the international bodies to look at alternatives for the poppy growers.