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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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erroneousfunk
3436 days ago
Right, but the OP was interpreting the sentence to imply that that's where it
comes from.
Morphine medication is all synthesized.
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irishsultan
3436 days ago
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.
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