Location: Poppy Bulb
Date: 2/9/2000
Subject: Even though the Thai government had eradicated the big poppy fields, some of the smaller ones persisted. The blooming flowers were very colorful. Each poppy bulb can yield about 1 gram of opium (harvested by gently slitting the bulb and letting the ooze dry). Each kilogram of opium can net over $1000 on the black market