Opium has been an important plant throughout history, and is probably more important in today’s society. This research paper will not only reflect on the appearance of opium, and the environmental conditions to grow opium, but it will also explain what opium is used for, how it is harvested, where in the world it is found and the medical uses of opium. In the world today, opium is most famous for illegal use; since it is cheap many people also grow it at their farms, illegally. Opium contains morphine that makes it addicted. It also contains codeine and other alkaloids. Normally opium is smoked to get high or to relieve pain, but opium is also present in a liquid form such as alcohol. In the scientific world opium has its own name, papaver somniferum.
Opium plant has many looks. At the beginning of the year at the farm, when opium just starts to grow, it looks similar to Figure 1. It is solid, green in color, has a smell, has a smooth texture and it is sticky because of latex. It remains in its form for one to two months until the shape starts to change. During the summer, when opium plant is fully grown, it turns into a solid form. Its color changes from green to dark brown, but it is still sticky because it still contains latex. At the end of the growing season, the opium plant either turns into a poppy or it decomposes and lets the poppy seeds to leave the plant.
To grow opium plant in a region, suitable environmental conditions are strictly required. Opium can only be grown in areas that have high temperatures and good air circulation. The opium plant can grow to around one meter tall. The best condition in which opium germinates well is when the soil temperature is between 60 and 65 degrees Fahrenheit and an air temperatu...
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...s and disease because it is helping people. It should be an illegal drug if it is being used by daily consumers for fun and to get high of drugs. Drugs should always be used for benefits to human not for harms. Albert Einstein once said, “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
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The Chinese would run the opium trade; cocaine would come from South America. The impact of this conspiracy, she asserted, could as of now been seen in the city of Edmonton, where Murphy was a police court officer (Mark Bourrie, 2015). In her book through various illustrations she mentioned about the “The Ring Victims.” Through her book “The Black Candle” she likewise specified that how the white race especially white girls and women were trapped by Chinamen in order to secure their services administration as sellers of opiates (Kulba, 85). She further discussed that it is not true that girls go to Chinamen because of the drug habit they learnt and request to satisfy their drug needs (Kulba, 85). Yet, “they are trapped and hunted like a game stalked to windwand and trapped by the Chinamen in order that she may be bent to his criminal purpose such as Libidinous desire” (233). Emily Murphy, in her book “the Black Candle” opposite to page 30 there is a photo of a white woman with an opium pipe; the caption stated as “An open-eyed insensate in the dread Valley of the Shadow of the Drug,” (Murphy, 1922). Below, another picture demonstrates the natural progression of The Ring’s victims: a completely dressed white lady leans back with shirtless black man (Kalunta-Crumpton, 333). The subtitle pursues: "When she procures the propensity, she doesn 't comprehend what lies before her; later she couldn 't care less." Opposite page 49, there’s a picture of a dark-skinned man and white woman, postured together, with opium paraphernalia in front of them. The caption says: “Once a woman has started on the trail of the poppy, the sledding is very easy and downgrade all the way.” The Ring was said to have its claws into Saskatoon, Calgary, Montreal and other Canadian cities where young women —
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