It's important to clarify that the white poppy is a different species altogether, not a strain of the plant from which opium ...

Why Eating Poppy Seeds Can Lead to a Positive Drug Test “Poppy seeds come from the opium poppy plant, which is where opiates such as morphine, codeine, and heroin come from,” he explained to ...

5. Poppies are needed to make morphine Morphine is created from the milky latex in the seed head of the opium poppy. For this reason, the poppy is featured on the Royal College of Anaesthetists ...

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White poppy seeds are not widely available, but you will find them in Indian grocers. Because they’re so small and have a tendency to stick together, poppy seeds are often dry-roasted ...

Dr R S Chundawat, an Indian opium specialist in Mandsaur, told the Daily Mail that the narcotic in the poppy seeds has the same effect on parrots as coffee and green tea has on humans, giving them ...

After Nishtha Jain's 'Farming the Revolution' last year, Vivek Chaudhary's 'I, Poppy' is the second Indian non-fiction film ...

By contrast, most small farmers were forced to turn their opium into cash immediately in order to recoup their outlays on seeds and fertilizer ... took action against poppy cultivation in May ...

A 3-year-old boy who loves plants has been honored by police for finding a banned opium poppy in his neighborhood ... and diffuses large numbers of tiny seeds. Tokushima Prefecture conducts ...