Buy dried poppies

If you want to buy dried poppies, you may need to know a few facts before investing in such a controversial product. Documented from ancient times as a valuable source for pleasure, relaxation and even visual inspiration, poppy is now seen from a very different perspective, due to the development of chemical procedures that guarantee its purity, effectiveness and quality. Like any pleasure, its abuse has some pretty unpleasant effects, but poppy has stood the test of time as the drug of choice of numerous cultures in history since some 7,000 to 10,000 years ago, according to most historians, beginning with Sumerians, who later taught the Assyrians the secrets to process the plant. Eventually, trade routes made poppy largely recommended as a common sleep aid and leisure product even in ancient Egypt’s pharaohs courtrooms.

Present day global civilization is no exception, so poppy just might be what you’re looking for to get your fix. When still immature, poppy pods produce an oil very rich in opium, proteins and alkaloids like codeine and morphine, which is one of the most powerful natural drugs know to man. Poppy has also been known and appreciated for its sheer visual beauty as a vividly colored flower. Besides, its medicinal uses are several and poppy (Papaver Somniferum Linnaeus) is still used in a wide variety of traditional cures through alternative medicine’s history. Still, the most popular purpose of this remarkably versatile plant is its use (and sometimes abuse) as a potent narcotic. Morphine, narcotine, codeine and other opiate alkaloids derived from unripe poppy pods are known to be highly pleasant drugs, somniferous, sedative, analgesic, and even considered aphrodisiacal in the right dose or in combination with other substances, as many people have found out firsthand.

In terms of price, you can buy dried poppies in some of the best of the 400 species of poppy, for prices ranging from the fairly cheap to the relatively expensive, depending on the effectiveness and chemistry of the product. One of the most popular pods, the Super Giganthemum poppies can be bought by $375, each case containing 100 seedless pods, measuring about 3 inches in diameter. Its distinctive tan color is sometimes darker than the usual light tone, and its pod is as beautiful as it is scarcely supplied worldwide, hence its apparently high cost.

Another famed variety of pods is the perennial Turkish Special poppy import, native of Turkey and Holland. Contrasting with the Giganthemum poppy, the Turkish is one of the smallest variations of dried poppy, measuring about 1½ inches approximately. Its price is currently in the $130 to $150 per case, containing 170 light green and golden brownish pods full of seeds, with fair long stems.