KABUL (Reuters) - Long the world's largest producer of opium, the raw ingredient of heroin, Afghanistan has now become the top supplier of cannabis, with large-scale cultivation in half of its ...

Because of its geopolitical value at the silk road gateway of Iran, Central Asia and India, the region of modern Afghanistan has historically been a conquest target. Empire after empire have literally ...

Don't take my word for it. Take the Houston Chronicle's. According to a Reuters report published in the Houston Chronicle, "Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled ...

A study by Canadian researchers is providing a clearer picture of the evolutionary history and genetic organization of cannabis, a step that could have agricultural, medical and legal implications for ...

* Large-scale cultivation in 17 out 34 provinces * Like opium, cannabis funding insurgency * Two-thirds of cannabis farmers also grow opium * Cannabis more lucrative but unlikely to overtake opium ...