The government has quietly licensed British farmers to plant hundreds of acres of prime land with opium poppies to meet critical shortfalls in pain-killing drugs across the NHS, despite calls to buy similar crops from Afghanistan to undermine the narcotics trade.
The government has quietly licensed British farmers to plant hundreds of acres of prime land with opium poppies to meet critical shortfalls in pain-killing drugs across the NHS, despite calls to buy similar crops from Afghanistan to undermine the narcotics trade.
