you grind the seeds and dissolve them with acetone
the us government kows this
but chemical companies like dow, dupont ,union carbide and all the drug companies have huge pacs and lots of lobbyists
so the government cant find out why small farms in costa rico Panama Mexico or even the usa need truckloads of acetone.
it is more beneficial to individual congressmen and senators to take pac $$ than to stop drug traffic
Opium is harvested by scoring or scratching the seed pod of an opium poppy. They seep out a latex that is allowed to dry to a residue, then scraped off.
Papaver somniferum is hardly endangered! The world's pharmaceutical industry depends on the raw opium from this plant for manufacturing the plethora of narcotic drugs widely available throughout the world. And I suppose a quick survey of Afghanistan will show you that the plant is thriving in this and other parts of the world that harvest opium for illicit conversion into heroin. So the short answer is No, "Opium Poppy" (Papaver Somniferum) is not endangered what-so-ever in the least.
There were 2 Opium Wars, the First Opium War was from 1839-1842 the Second Opium War was from 1856-1860
No there is no opium in Methadone
opium poppies
they got it from India then manufactured the opium
selling opium
Opium, you spelled it correctly.
The tea and Opium trade
The opium poppy is a type of plant in which opium and poppy seeds come from. Opium is where many narcotics like morphine, are taken from.
Crude opium is made of the opium poppy's latex. This latex is obtained by cutting the unripe pod of the plant.
Opium is no longer used as an ingredient in perfume because of its additive quality. Though YSL produces a perfume named Opium, there is no ingredient of opium used in the manufacture of the perfume Opium!
where does opium come from