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by ipunchghosts 3437 days ago
1st sentence of wikipedia, "Morphine is a pain medication of the opiate type which is found naturally in a number of plants and animals."
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Right, but the OP was interpreting the sentence to imply that that's where it comes from. Morphine medication is all synthesized.
Nope, otherwise farmers in Afghanistan wouldn't have switched to growing opium poppies en masse.

Apparently the main issue the OP had was with the seeds part.