Sentence examples for control the poppy from inspiring English sources
Los Ardillos are said to control the poppy and marijuana plantations in the small settlements surrounding Chilapa.
They fear petty crime will flourish, and that there could even be turf wars over who controls the poppy and marijuana fields.
Before the five adventurers reach the Emerald City, they must face obstacles such as a crazy subway peddler (a homeless man) with evil puppets in his control and the "Poppy" Girls (a reference to the poppy field from the original story), prostitutes who attempt to put Dorothy, Toto, and the Lion to sleep with magic dusting powder.
Mycoherbicides, "fungus naturally existing in the soil," could safely control the opium poppy, coca plant, and cannabis, rendering them worthless.
The reason that poppy farming is such a concern in Afghanistan is that the Taliban and other drug lords control the sale of poppies to international opium traders.
"Marijuana is not difficult to control, like poppy," the governor said in an interview in October in his vast, opulent office in Mazar-i-Sharif.
Drug control officers for the United Nations have reported that the poppy yield has been virtually eliminated.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Almost 4,000 United States Marines, backed by helicopter gunships, pushed into the volatile Helmand River valley in southwestern Afghanistan early Thursday morning to try to take back the region from Taliban fighters whose control of poppy harvests and opium smuggling in Helmand provides major financing for the Afghan insurgency.
In Shan and bordering Kachin, the army allows militias to control vast poppy areas if they help fight rebel groups.
The poppy blazes - accusingly?
