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 ...

Marijuana entrepreneurs in America have high hopes for growth in the EU, which has friendlier regulations and lower taxes. Here’s why it could bloom into a $50 billion market that eclipses the U.S.

* 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 ...