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Uses - is it still used in the manufacture of codeine?

Unlikely in this country I'd have thought (both for the lack of sun and
any legal issues - I'd have thought that any legal, organised production
would have some sort of protection).

Maybe it is possible to extract the active ingredients by just
harvesting and processing - rather than slitting and bleeding sap?

Yes, the usual (legal) way is to harvest the seed-pods and extract the
juice - and no, I'm not extracting the juice...

That
said, the picture of worthy labourers going round slitting poppy heads
and collecting opium is rather attractive. I suspect that near
Stonehenge there might be a large itinerant labour force willing to
volunteer Possibly also open up a Pick Your Own Drugs operation.

The mind boogies.

And it makes me wonder. Are such things synthesised for use in legal
opiate drugs (eg., heroin, opium tinctures, morphine and codeine) -
apart from the obvious opiate like substitutes - or do companies buy the
raw ingredients from the Afghani poppy fields?

That I don't know. It will all be down to economics.

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And it makes me wonder. Are such things synthesised for use in legal
opiate drugs (eg., heroin, opium tinctures, morphine and codeine) -
apart from the obvious opiate like substitutes - or do companies buy the
raw ingredients from the Afghani poppy fields?

I've heard that opium poppy is grown commercially in Tasmania.

Google confirms.

http://www.poppies.org/news/99742218366555.shtml
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On 13/7/05 20:01, in article , "Stewart
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And it makes me wonder. Are such things synthesised for use in legal
opiate drugs (eg., heroin, opium tinctures, morphine and codeine) -
apart from the obvious opiate like substitutes - or do companies buy the
raw ingredients from the Afghani poppy fields?

I've heard that opium poppy is grown commercially in Tasmania.


Bit of a detour for Stonehenge, though. ;-)
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Coming back to this rather late - my step daughter drove up to
Stonehenge last night and said there was a huge field of white
poppies,
stretching as
far as the eye could see. None of us know why such a vast
quantity
of white
poppies is being grown but in that number, it must be as a crop,
surely?

Possibly for oil?

And again - why white?

Pass. Lack of strong flavour, mayhap?

And what is poppy oil used for?

Cooking: but cooking what, I dunno.

Oil painting. It's a drying oil, but, unlike linseed, doesn't go
yellow.

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Cooking: but cooking what, I dunno.

Oil painting. It's a drying oil, but, unlike linseed, doesn't go
yellow.

I should have known that - or rather, I should have remembered that. I
*KNEW* I'd seen it somewhere. (But I use watercolours these days - I
gave up oils in the '60s.)

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Cooking: but cooking what, I dunno.

Oil painting. It's a drying oil, but, unlike linseed, doesn't go
yellow.

I should have known that - or rather, I should have remembered that. I
*KNEW* I'd seen it somewhere. (But I use watercolours these days - I
gave up oils in the '60s.)

Wonderful! That solves that problem.
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