Teragon said:

did it stop raining? you need to spend some time scoring the fuck out of that field.

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did it hell stop raining! since they started flowering it has rained heavily most days... theres a big patch of poppies rotting in the low part of the field due to flooding, the majority are fine...
but we are forecast 2 inches of rain for tomorrow in my county...

xk3m_indica said:

it's the same down here in tasmania, we have fucking paddocks everywhere (only place in aus that grows poppies as far as I know) here are some pics of a field on my way to work.


are those thibaine poppies?






Sorry for flashing these pics around so much, i should prolly stop now

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ive seen them once or twice before i think
no such warning signs posted round the fields here though...
tasmania is about the only place in aus where the climate is cool enough for poppies i guess...
never got that far south, all my family are from queensland.

thebaine... had to look it up but still i have no clue! could you explain the difference please?

i had them down as gig's but someone on another forum suggested they may be tassie's... wot do u think they are?

xk3m_indica said:

Tergaon told me that Thebaine poppies are genetically modified to produce a certain chemical that is used in some kind of painkiller, can't remember what it was (have to check my pm's) but they are basically just grown purely for medical use.

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(paramorphine) is an opiate alkaloid. A minor constituent of opium, thebaine is chemically similar to both morphine and codeine, but has stimulatory effects, with strychnine-like convulsions, rather than depressant effects. Thebaine is not used therapeutically, but is converted industrially into a variety of compounds including oxycodone, oxymorphone, nalbuphine, naloxone, naltrexone, buprenorphine and etorphine.

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Thebaine is listed as a Class A drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 in the United Kingdom.

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