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Poppies (Papaver somniferum) are an herbaceous annual plant that has been cultivated for thousands of years. Apart from the value of poppy seed as a condiment and oil as an edible source or potential biofuel, the poppy produces a unique assortment of valuable alkaloid compounds called active pharmaceutical ingredients. For example, morphine, codeine, thebaine, oripavine and papaverine are several opioids produced by P. somniferum with high pharmaceutical value... Every year approximately 120,000 hectares (300,000 acres) of poppies are grown globally for culinary and pharmaceutical purposes. Over 90% of this licit poppy cultivation occurred in seven countries including: Australia, France, Spain, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Turkey, and India. Because it is exceedingly difficult to convert poppies into narcotics, there has been an absence of criminal diversion, according to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), a quasi-judicial branch of the United Nations which oversees the..

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