Sentences with phrase «producing opium»

The species Papaver somniferum includes many varieties of poppies, only one of which, the «red scarlet» poppy, produces opium and derivative narcotics (such as heroin) from its pods which contain significant amounts of concentrated opiates (primarily morphine and codeine).

Not exact matches

Recent research from the DEA indicates that the cartels are now producing white - powder heroin from opium cultivated in Mexico, which could allow them to wrest control of the production process away from South Americans, target new customers, and keep more of the profits from heroin sales.

Opium, like its modern equivalent heroin, produced a temporary pleasure that ends in nausea and self destruction.

Chatting during the boat cruise (from left), Brandon Barnholt of KeHE, a leading distributor of natural & organic, specialty and fresh products; Kim Jung, a co-founder of Rumi Spice, which produces saffron products and provides Afghan farmers with an alternative to growing opium poppies; Bill Weiland, CEO of Presence Marketing, who since the early 1990s has been a pioneering marketer and investor in the Good Food sector (that is a Chicago Cubs hat he is wearing); and Chef Paul Virant.

«In Helmand more than 400 British servicemen, countless hundreds of Afghan servicemen and civilians who are often forgotten when we talk about this, hundreds of Americans, Canadian, French, Estonian soldiers, amongst others, all lost their lives in Helmand, which produces half of Afghanistan's opium.

There are four broad classes of opioids: endogenous opioid peptides, produced in the body; opium alkaloids, such as morphine (the prototypical opioid) and codeine; semi-synthetic opioids such as heroin and oxycodone; and fully synthetic opioids such as pethidine and methadone that have structures unrelated to the opium alkaloids.

The winemaker Taroemon became responsible for opium production, which started in the spring and produced about 1.27 kg of opium by autumn.

Endogenous opioids, such as endorphin and dynorphin, are natural chemicals, related to the opium molecule, that are produced in the central nervous system.

In so doing, he created the visual equivalent of the «white noise» - the hum of murmuring voices - that both disrupts and ultimately informs the ritualized proceeding of the consumption of opium... (T) hese images materialize a sense of the experience produced by consuming the drug (Schimmel, op.

Home garden and breadseed variety poppy plants look similar to the opium producing red scarlet poppy, yet the DEA seems able to tell the difference.