Poppy Superbloom…. Just as we are having an Opioid crisis. They want you dead.
The poppy plant, more specifically the opium poppy or Papaver somniferum, is used to produce opiates. … The opiates that come from the poppy plant include morphine, opium, heroin, and codeine. After they enter the body, opiates stimulate their receptors in the brain.
On July 12, the Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter to the owner of a website selling a product known as PoppySeed Wash. In the letter, the FDA warned that the product was being marketed not as a food but as a drug.
Among the claims on the website: The product can be used as a sleep aid, a pain reliever, and a remedy to ease opioid withdrawals. (However, these claims appear to have been taken down.) The site goes on to say that the product can even replace prescription opioids, including oxycodone and fentanyl.
“Your PoppySeed Wash product is not generally recognized as safe and effective for the above referenced use and, therefore, the product is a ‘new drug,’” states the letter. “New drugs may not be legally introduced or delivered for introduction into interstate commerce without prior approval from FDA.”
PoppySeed Wash is just one of many similar products sold to make poppy seed tea — which is done by taking the supplied poppy seeds, steeping them in water, and drinking the resulting “tea,” minus the seeds.
While this may seem harmless, poppy seed tea is in fact a growing concern among health experts and legislators because it can contain the opiates morphine and codeine.