What plant is used to make opium?

in the wizard of oz dorothy and the gang fall asleep in the poppy field

Don't eat that poppy seed bagel before a urine test or you'll test positive for narcotics.

Mag1c M1ke, yup. ypres, WWI, poem in Flanders field the poppies blow, between the crosses row on row ....to morn friend's violent death. poem inspired an American teacher to begin the poppy tradition for Remembrance Day which used to be November 11.

very good pain reliever when controlled, esp. after surgery.

Maybe mistaken, but aren't Poppies also symbolic of one of the wars where a lot of dead soldiers in France died in a field where Poppies started growing after the conclusion of the war.. Which is why at 11am on the 11th of November, militants & those showing respect for the falling where a poppy flower on their chest?

Laudy Miss Claudy, proven fact

Laudy Miss Claudy, yep I learned that from an episode of Seinfeld lol where they had eaten poppyseed muffins lol!

Laudy Miss Claudy, I had an orange poppyseed muffin every day on my way to formation in the Army...till someone said that. lol. not taking the chance. oh, how I missed my poppyseed muffin!

Mag1c M1ke, I believe it is because of the ancient use of poppies on gravestones to sign. eternal sleep...

Player #19645645, I was gonna mention that. it's why people wear the poppy flower on these days.

Hundreds of acres of them grown in Tasmania (red fields as far as the eye can see )for processing to make codeine

Mag1c M1ke, Poppies have always grown in the fields of France( and other European countries) but were controlled as weeds before the trench warfare of WW1. Because no crops were sown in these very large areas(hundreds of square miles) for several years after the war ended due to unexploded ordinance and hastily buried bodies, the poppies took over and turned the fields an apt blood red. FYI the main Allied losses consisted of British ,Australians, New Zealanders ,French and Canadians but there were lots of Americans killed and buried there too.

and humans always find a way to turn something good to bad

And how romantic when you smoke at your date with poppy seeds in your teeth! 😬

Controls my chronic pain better than anything but morphine and codien only make me itchy and nauseated. Don't other opiates come from poppy's also?

In Andhra cuisine of India new moms are given a curry made with Poppy seeds as it helps with the pain and increase milk supply.

Not all poppy species produce opium.

Player #12965967, Maybe because he was a dad. ie "pop".

Player #11357618 cmk, accidental discovery I think, it's the milky, latex like fluid the seed pod bleeds when you cut it that is turned into opium.

How did anyone discover the poppy is opium? Someone just looked at it and said this will make a good painkiller?

love that flower

Laudy Miss Claudy, I know I use to eat them all the time there is also several cold meds that do this

FiestyHippo2333, high too huh lmao

I didn't see it

Wtf what

Laudy Miss Claudy, thats right out of a Seinfeld story.