There are always beautiful plants where people stay, but there is a “flower” that hides a deadly crisis — the poppy known as the “flower of evil”. The opium poppy, which is a one-year herbivivate, has a distinctive appearance that allows identification to avoid potential risks。
What's a poppy
Poppy is a one-year herbivorous plant with a stem of 30-80 cm tall, branches and stretching rough hair. The leaves are born from one another, the feathers are fractured, the cracks are in the shape of a pin or a strip of a pin, and there are rough hairs on both sides. The omelet form, with long truffles, drops off when it's not open; the pellets are green, when the flowers bloom; the petals 4, the purple redPoppy cultivationThere are many flowers and colors. The base is often dark, purple, wide or near-turned, flowered yellow; female pelvis, irradiated by a column. Period march-november. Poppy tubers are tall and tall, but juice extracted from them can be processed into opium, morphine and heroin. As a result, opium poppy has become an important source of drugs in the world, and opium poppy, a beautiful plant, is known as “the flower of evil”。
Poppy seedlings
Poppy leaf seedlings
Poppy leaf
What are the hazards of opium poppy
Poppy is the main drug-source plant for the extraction of drug heroin, and the chronic consumption of food containing opium poppy shells is addictive, can cause damage to the human nervous system and can cause chronic poisoning and serious respiratory difficulties. They are added to the food, which is soaked into the soup juice that they can make the human body dependent and addictive. It is known as the three main drug plants, together with cannabis and coca. Therefore, cultivation of opium poppy is strictly controlled in my country and is prohibited except for medical research。
No illicit cultivation of opium poppy
Law of the people's republic of china on administrative penalties for security
Any person who:
(i) illicit cultivation of less than 500 opium poppy plants or other small quantitiesDrug plant的；
(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。
Article 350 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. A term of imprisonment of up to five years, detention or control and a fine shall be imposed if:
(i) the cultivation of more than 500 opium poppy plants and less than 3,000 or larger quantities of other drugs
(ii) growed after treatment by public security organs
(iii) resistance to eradication。
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 illicit cultivation of opium poppy or other narcotic plants, which is automatically eradicated before harvest, is exempt from punishment。
Relevant criteria for identification: illicit cultivation of narcotic plants shall be considered “larger” under article 151, paragraph 1 (a), of the penal code if:
(i) the illicit cultivation of more than 5,000 cannabis plants than 30,000
(ii) the illicit cultivation of more than 200 square metres of opium poppy under 1,200 square metres and of more than 2,000 square metres of cannabis under 12,000 square metres, which have not yet grown
(iii) the illicit cultivation of other drug plants is significant。
The illicit cultivation of narcotic plants, which meets the highest quantitative standards provided for in the preceding paragraph, should be considered to be “significant” under article 151, paragraph 2, of the penal code。
What if we find a suspected poison plant
If a plant suspected to be a drug plant is seen, it is possible to click on the zhejiang public anti-narcotics (zhejiang) drop-down menu column and take a picture of the flower and quickly screen the drug plant, such as “poppy” “hish”。
Finally, chief, once again, i warn you
Prohibition of the illicit cultivation of narcotic plants such as opium poppy
