Opium was also a key commodity in early ... morphine (then called “morphium”), the most potent poppy-derived opioid. “Morphine,” Inglis writes, “heralded a new era in drug manufacture ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers. Meanwhile, Myanmar registered growth in cultivation and production from 2021 through 2023, which UNODC ...

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 ...

One kilogram of the poppies’ juice — the key ingredient of narcotic painkillers such as morphine and stronger ... regime has had a major impact on opium poppy production in all regions of ...

Manchukuo enforced a government monopoly not only on opium but also on heroin and morphine, and the proceeds went into the state coffers. Part of the profits from the trade were diverted to the ...

On the contrary, Vermont opium is condemned as being merely an extract of poppy leaves and stalks ... with use of some alcohol to extract the morphine. The juice thus obtained is dried, and ...

The ruling states the Controlled Dangerous Substances Act "does not distinguish between seeds that have different levels of ...

All charges have been dropped against a Tulsa couple who were accused of selling poppy seeds online to a woman who died.

The Tasmanian opium poppy farming industry produces about 50% of the world's licit poppy straw that is later refined into opiates such as morphine and codeine. Jiang Shan, Editor of the Chinese ...