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Where is opium cultivated and distributed?

April 26, 2017cultivated distributed Opium

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Where is opium cultivated and distributed?

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Some drug enforcement agencies have confiscated opium hothouses from homes and apartments of small-scale users or dealers in the U.S., but opium is still a “cash crop” in many areas of the world. Opium-poppy cultivation for pharmaceutical use is legal in at least 12 countries (Australia, China, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, India, Japan, Slovakia, Spain, Macedonia, Turkey and the United Kingdom).