What does the poppy look like
Poppy hazard
How big is it
Illicit cultivation, trade, transport, carrying, possession
What are the legal consequences
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Poppy poppy: a year of grass-roots. The leaves are green, the flowers are colourful, the pavilions are plumbing, and the fruit is tall, and the summer blooms, and the flowers are large and the branches are single. Four petals, red, purple or white. Spherical or elliptical, small and numerous seeds. The juice extracted from opium poppy nuts can be processed into opium, morphine and heroin. Poppy cultivation was an important plant for the production of poisons and illicit cultivation was explicitly prohibited by the state。
Poppy seeds
Opium poppy seedlings
Poppy
Poppy nuts
Total opium poppy cycle
Hazard: long-term consumption of opium poppy is prone to addiction, leading to chronic poisoning. As addiction increases, symptoms such as slower pulses, sleeplessness, lower body temperature, loss of reflection, and even death from respiratory central paralysis can occur. Poppy shells have also been shown to be harmful to humans, and the state has explicitly prohibited the addition of food products。
Article 151 of the criminal law of the people's republic of china:
The illicit cultivation of narcotic plants such as opium poppy and cannabis is enforced。
Anyone who cultivates more than 500 opium poppy plants of less than 3,000 plants or other drug-rich plants, or who, after being dealt with by the public security authorities, cultivates them or resists their eradication, shall be punished by imprisonment, detention or control for a term not exceeding five years and a fine。
The illicit cultivation of more than 3,000 opium poppy or other drug plants is punishable by a term of imprisonment of more than five years and a fine or confiscation of property. The automatic elimination before harvest is exonerated。
Article 302 of the criminal law of the people's republic of china:
The illicit sale, transport, carrying, possession of seeds or seedlings of narcotic plants, such as undefunct opium poppy, is punishable by imprisonment, detention or control for up to three years and by a fine or a single fine。
Article 83 of the law of the people's republic of china on administrative penalties for security:
(i) illicit cultivation of less than 500 or other small quantities of narcotic plants
(ii) illicit trade in, transport, carry and hold small amounts of raw drug plant seeds, such as raw opium poppy, or seedlings
(iii) the illicit transport, trade, storage and use of small quantities of opium poppy shells。
The first act in the preceding paragraph shall not be punishable if it is self-destructed before maturity。
