The largest high thebaine opium plantation in the world are in Tasmania. They were formerly owned by Purdue, because the efficient production of oxycodone requires the high thebaine varietal
Anyway Purdue spun all their holdings off into disguised ownership structure. Supposedly they divested, but its a group of companies now and dig might produce interesting connection.
Lots of gov incentives in Tas ATM is your a qualified poppy rancher.
https://psmag.com/ideas/opioids-limiting-the-legal-supply-wont-stop-the-overdose-crisis
2014 Ownership shake out
Tasmania, an island off Australia’s southern coast, is the start of a global supply chain that encompasses the biggest drug companies and produces $12 billion a year of opiate painkillers.
Nearly a half-century of assiduous plant breeding, a gentle climate and tight regulations have given Tasmania a hammerlock on production of one of the pharmaceutical industry’s most important raw materials. Tasmania, which is about the size of West Virginia, grows about 85 percent of the world’s thebaine, an opium poppy extract used to make OxyContin and a family of similarly powerful prescription drugs that have transformed pain management over the last two decades. It produces all of the world’s oripavine, another extract, which is used to treat heroin overdoses and shows promise in controlling other addictions. Tasmania also accounts for a quarter of the world’s morphine and codeine, two older painkillers from opium poppies that are still widely used, particularly outside North America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/business/international/tasmania-big-supplier-to-drug-companies-faces-changes.html