To nobody’s surprise, poppy seeds are the seeds of a poppy flower—specifically the papaver somniferum.This variety, also ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. The U.S. Defense Department issued a memo on Feb. 17, 2023, warning service members to avoid eating poppy seeds because doing so may ...

The U.S. Defense Department issued a memo on Feb. 17, warning service members to avoid eating poppy seeds because doing so may result in a positive urine test for the opiate codeine. Addiction and ...

P HILADELPHIA — A few hundred pounds of dried opium poppy pods have been seized by U.S. Customs and ... to 27 months federally for importing and selling poppy pods, straw, and unwashed seeds.

The impact of poppy seeds on drug tests has long been debated, but research has shown the food ingredient, which comes from the plant that produces opium, can have unintended effects.

Poppy seeds come from the opium poppy (or breadseed poppy), a flowering plant likely indigenous to lower Mesopotamia (Southwest Asia). These kidney-shaped, ...

There are two main uses for the opium poppy. It is a source of the opiates used in painkillers, the most biologically active of which are morphine and codeine. Its seeds are also used for cooking ...

Poppy seeds come from the Papaver somniferum plant, which is also used to make drugs like opium and morphine.In fact, many drug tests are so sensitive to opiates that the U.S. Department of ...

Consuming tea brewed from unwashed poppy seeds, which come from the plant that produces opium, can lead to grave outcomes, such as addiction, overdose and death. Westend61/Getty Images/File KFF ...

The unripe seed pods of the opium poppy plant hold a milky substance. People make cuts in the pods to let the substance drain out. It’s then scraped and dried, producing illegal opium.

While poppy seeds are exempt from drug control under the Controlled Substances Act, opium contaminants on the seeds are not, the agency says. The Justice Department has brought criminal ...