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'''Opium''' is a resin extracted from the flowering plant ''Papeverum somniferum | '''Opium''' is a resin extracted from the flowering plant ''Papeverum somniferum'' during certain stages of its cultivation. Crude opium can be smoked or eaten as a recreational drug, but is more commonly prepared into abusable pharmaceutical forms such as [[morphine]] or [[codeine], or the less medicinally used but more abused [[heroin]]. Other variants of the species are grown as ornamentals, or food flavorings, and even the opium poppy has a lovely flower. | ||
Opium cultivation is a large part of the world's illicit [[drug trade]]. | Opium cultivation is a large part of the world's illicit [[drug trade]]. | ||
Revision as of 06:28, 7 October 2009
Opium is a resin extracted from the flowering plant Papeverum somniferum during certain stages of its cultivation. Crude opium can be smoked or eaten as a recreational drug, but is more commonly prepared into abusable pharmaceutical forms such as morphine or [[codeine], or the less medicinally used but more abused heroin. Other variants of the species are grown as ornamentals, or food flavorings, and even the opium poppy has a lovely flower.
Opium cultivation is a large part of the world's illicit drug trade.