Britain Farmers Find Promise in a Crop Illegal in Afghanistan (Video)

Farmers in Britain are harvesting a surprising new crop in an effort to combat a shortage of painkillers. It is a crop that is plentiful thousands of kilometers away in Afghanistan, but there, British and U.S. troops are trying to destroy it.

One field of opium poppies is just 90 minutes west of London. Recent dry springs and early summers in England are perfect for poppies.east 140 trillion times greater than all the water in the Earth's oceans, and 100,000 times more massive than the sun.