Honest Question, Honest. · 5:11pm June 27th
Hey, all...
If you set fire to a poppy field, are you releasing narcotics into the air?
Put another way, how much processing is needed to make poppy juice into opium?
Also, how ripe do the poppies need to be?
Asking due to an upcoming chapter that I’d like to avoid having completely inaccurate information.
Thank you.
Opium is just the dried latex of immature poppy pods, so... not much processing at all? Not sure how long after the petals fall off that you'd start harvesting, though. Apparently if they're starting to turn yellow that's a bit late.
And yeah burning an opium poppy field could probably get you a bit wasted.![:rainbowlaugh:](https://static.fimfiction.net/images/emoticons/rainbowlaugh.png)
This could make an interesting 'extra scene' or fanfic for The WIzard of Oz.
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