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World's Top Illegal Drugs | Opium and Morphine | Top Documentary Films. Welcome to TOP DOCUMENTARY FILMS - home of the best documentary films and documentary movies! Opium (poppy tears, lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum).[4][5] Opium latex contains approximately 12% of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which is processed chemically to produce heroin and other synthetic opioids for medicinal use and for the illegal drug trade. The latex also contains the closely related opiates codeine and thebaine and non-analgesic alkaloids such as papaverine and noscapine. The traditional, labor-intensive method of obtaining the latex is to scratch ("score") the immature seed pods (fruits) by hand; the latex leaks out and dries to a sticky yellowish residue that is later scraped off, and dehydrated. The word "meconium" (derived from the Greek for "opium-like", but now used to refer to infant stools) historically referred to related, weaker preparations made from other parts of the opium poppy or different species of poppies.[6] The production of opium itself has not changed since ancient times. Through selective breeding of the Papaver somniferum plant, the content of the phenanthrene alkaloids morphine, codeine, and to a lesser extent thebaine, has been greatly increased. In modern times, much of the thebaine, which often serves as the raw material for the synthesis for hydrocodone, hydromorphone, and other semisynthetic opiates, originates from extracting Papaver orientale or Papaver bracteatum. Opium for illegal use is often converted into heroin, which is less bulky,[citation needed] making it easier to smuggle, and which multiplies its potency to approximately twice that of morphine. Read more about "World's Top Illegal Drugs | Opium and Morphine | Top Documentary Films": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium Subscribe to Top Documentary Films to be the first to receive updates: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCXMImr8xGO8MidJGoOnhiw Join us in our top documentary films community discussion by following us in our top documentary films Google+ page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/116556509442378341099 Enjoy watching TOP DOCUMENTARY FILMS - home of the best documentary films and documentary movies! #DocumentaryFilms #DocumentaryMovies #History #TopDocumentaryFilms Thanks for watching "World's Top Illegal Drugs | Opium and Morphine | Top Documentary Films"