"Contrary to common trust, there is not any federal legislations opposed to transforming into P. somniferum."—Martha Stewart Living

"Regarded as 'God's personal medicine,' arrangements of opium have been as universal within the Victorian drugs cupboard as aspirin is in ours. As past due as 1915, pamphlets issued by means of the U.S. division of Agriculture have been nonetheless declaring opium poppies as a very good funds crop for northern farmers. good into this century, Russian, Greek, and Arab immigrants in the US have used poppy-head tea as a gentle sedative and a treatment for complications, muscle discomfort, cough, and diarrhea. in the course of the Civil warfare, gardeners within the South have been inspired to plant opium for the conflict attempt, on the way to make certain a provide of painkillers for the accomplice military. What Hogshire has performed is to excavate this vernacular wisdom after which post it to the world—in how-to shape, with recipes."— Michael Pollan

First released fifteen years in the past, Opium for the Masses immediately grew to become a countrywide phenomenon. Michael Pollan wrote a long characteristic ("Opium, made easy") approximately Jim Hogshire in Harper’s Magazine, surprised that the typical plant, P. somniferum, or opium poppies, which grows wild in lots of states and is out there at crafts and pastime shops and nurseries, may be made right into a drinkable tea that acts in a fashion just like codeine or Vicodin.

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