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Raw opium may be sold to a merchant or broker on the black market, but it usually does not travel far from the field before it is refined into morphine base, because pungent, jelly-like raw opium is bulkier and harder to smuggle.
Jun 26, 2024 · This raw opium may be ground into a powder, sold as lumps, cakes, or bricks, or treated further to obtain derivatives such as morphine, codeine, and heroin. Opium and the drugs obtained from it are called opiates.
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Dec 16, 2016 · Raw opium is widely cultivated in certain parts of the world and can be drunk, swallowed or smoked. In overdose, its alkaloids and their derivatives, called opiates, are well known to cause respiratory and central nervous system depression, which may lead to death.
Jun 12, 2017 · A North Carolina man was arrested last month when police discovered an acre of opium poppies growing in his yard. The alleged grower, Cody Xiong, faces a rare charge in the United States. Despite...
Aug 22, 2002 · Introduction. Step 1: Planting Opium Poppy. Step 2: Harvesting Opium. Step 3: Extracting Morphine. Step 4: Morhpine to Heroin Base. Step 5: Heroin Purification. A farmer scrapes off raw opium...
Aug 22, 2002 · Raw opium, which has a strong odor that can be easily detected by customs officials, must be converted into morphine base before it can be transported out of the country. To create morphine base,...
Jun 5, 2020 · DEA's revised and updated drug fact sheet about the opium - what it is and its history, what are its common street names, what it looks like, how it is abused, what its effect on the minds and bodies of users are including signs of overdose, and it legal status.
Opium is a highly addictive non-synthetic narcotic that is extracted from the poppy plant, Papaver somniferum. The opium poppy is the key source for many narcotics, including morphine, codeine, and heroin.
The world’s largest per capita consumers of raw or minimally processed opium are the Islamic Republic of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. In 2018, there were an estimated 5 million users of illicit opium worldwide.
Sep 29, 2011 · In "Raw Opium," filmmakers Robert Lang and Peter Findlay travel to the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan to document the illicit global trade of heroin's...
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