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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Poppy seeds can famously trigger a positive drug test, but can they actually get you high? A toxicologist explains the deadly science and what to watch out for. ... commonly known as opium poppy.

Opium poppy seeds contain negligible amounts of narcotics. ... as do other physical characteristics (number and shape of petals, number of pods, production of morphine, etc.).

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 ...

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 ...

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