Opium
Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum. Approximately 12 percent of opium is made up of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which is processed chemically to produce heroin and other synthetic opioids for medicinal use and for the illegal drug trade. The latex also contains the closely related opiates codeine and thebaine, and non-analgesic alkaloids such as papaverine and noscapine. The traditional, labor-intensive method of obtaining the latex is to scratch ("score") the immature seed pods (fruits) by hand; the latex leaks out and dries to …
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CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 8 March 2024 English
The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …
than automobile accidents, in a kind of reverse opium war by China to destroy Western cities –a key domestic …
CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 7 March 2024 English
The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …
than automobile accidents, in a kind of reverse opium war by China to destroy Western cities –a key domestic …
CDPC: Canadian Drug Policy Coalition · 8 February 2024 English
Directly advocate at the provincial level for the federal government to fully repeal Section 4 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and Section 8 of the Cannabis Act and …
Indigenous populations in the 1876 Indian Act. Opium and cannabis were then purposefully linked to Chinese …
CCSA: Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction · 6 February 2024 English
Explores how people who use drugs and the climate emergency interconnect. For example, in 2021 flooding in British Columbia disrupted people’s access to opioid agonist treatment. Looks at how people …
change in the type of drugs entering the country. Opium, a drug not typically found in large quantities … some plant-based drugs, such as opium, have adapted to it. Not only is opium a drought-resistant plant, making …
BCCLA: BC Civil Liberties Association · 2 February 2024 English
Directly advocate at the provincial level for the federal government to fully repeal Section 4 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and Section 8 of the Cannabis Act and …
Indigenous populations in the 1876 Indian Act. Opium and cannabis were then purposefully linked to Chinese …
CSPI: Centre for Science in the Public Interest · 31 January 2024 English
Commission Recommendation of 10 September 2014 on good practices to prevent and to reduce the presence of opium alkaloids in poppy seeds and poppy seed products. …
from the same plant— Papaver somniferum, or the opium poppy. The seeds themselves naturally contain negligible … the opiate content of the seeds to safe levels. Opium poppy may not be legally grown in the U.S., but … 1, 2023. 15 Condutti A. Tulsa couple accused of opium conspiracy through pushing poppy seed tea, federal … com/news/local/crime-courts/tulsa-couple-accused-of-opium-conspiracy-through-pushing-poppy-seed-tea-federal-prosecutors- … practices to prevent and to reduce the presence of opium alkaloids in poppy seeds and poppy seed products …
CDPC: Canadian Drug Policy Coalition · 31 January 2024 English
Directly advocate at the provincial level for the federal government to fully repeal Section 4 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and Section 8 of the Cannabis Act and …
Indigenous populations in the 1876 Indian Act. Opium and cannabis were then purposefully linked to Chinese …
CDPC: Canadian Drug Policy Coalition · 30 January 2024 English
Directly advocate at the provincial level for the federal government to fully repeal Section 4 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and Section 8 of the Cannabis Act and …
Indigenous populations in the 1876 Indian Act. Opium and cannabis were then purposefully linked to Chinese …
CDPC: Canadian Drug Policy Coalition · 30 January 2024 English
The government’s failure to meaningfully intervene in the unregulated drug crisis, and its use of criminal-legal or medical approaches, has roots in the founding of Canada as a nation state. …
on these lands date back to the Indian Act, the Opium wars, and an early 20th century rise in anti-Chinese …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 27 January 2024 English
Rediscovering, valuing, and embracing Indigenous spirituality and wisdom is critical for humanity to survive in the future. Civilization is a western, Eurocentric construct borne from a distrust of nature, a …
countries beginning in the 1840s and known as the Opium Wars, China was forced to devise a strategy based …
