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Poppies Pods

WHERE OPIUM LIES
Poppy pod definition: “Sometimes called the seedpod, capsule, bulb, or head. It refers to the egg-sized fruit, which enlarges as the flower petals fall from the plant. The poppy pod is the mature ovary of the opium poppy plant. The ovarian wall produces the white latex (opium)”.

Poppy flowers were known in Europe since four thousand years. Interesting evidences were found by scientists is a fossil remaining of poppy seed cake and poppies pods that were found in a Swiss lake belonging to the Neolithic Age. Almost certain that opium was consumed by the ancient Egyptians and was well known by the Greeks too. There are a lot of references to the poppy flower in Homer’s classic books: The Iliad and The Odyssey. Another famous Greek, Hippocrates, known trough world history as “The Father of Medicine”, recommended to his pupils to drink the juice of the white poppy mixed with the seed of nettle to ease some pains.

If you take the smallest pinch of poppy seeds, the very same kind of that tops your bagel, and sows them. Just in a few days, poppies will sprout tiny white stems, then slender green leaves, then will keep growing into exciting hardy annual flowers. Poppy flowers just need a couple of months into the spring growing season, then poppy flowers will fall away, leaving in their place rounded seedpods filled with thousands of seeds with a milky sap that will ooze out through slits made into the poppies pods’ walls. That dried sap is opium, the illegal narcotic even in its most natural form, if you possess this sap, you can be sent to prison. It must me kept in mind that opium is a very high addictive drug that can be smoked or eaten, anyway, it can induce into a pleasant dream that can last a few hours, or it can be processed into morphine (an alkaloid found in opium that is the main psychoactive component), heroin, codeine, or other dangerous drugs.

Policemen and non-instructed citizens alike know it is difficult to prove a particular seedpod is a banned opium poppy, even tougher to show what kind of poppy seed they were planting. Testing a sample of the sap from poppy pods, can only show they contain alkaloids found in opium, alkaloids also naturally produced by other plants.

The prized book "Reagan’s Guide to Annuals" offers detailed directions for growing all the Papaver varieties, the guide makes a clear note under the category of somniferum, "The juice of the unripe poppy pods yields opium, the production of which is illegal in the United States"

Everybody must bear in mind that keeping poppies pods from the papaver somniferum variety is dangerous for their health and liberty. An overdose of morphine can lead you to death. If you are found with this alkaloid you can get a long prison sentence.