The opium poppy is a plant found in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and parts of Central and South America. ... History and Use 6000-year-old Summerian texts refer to the opium poppy as the 'joy plant'. ... Heroin is derived from raw opium gum, which is produced only by the opium poppy plant, although other varieties of poppy exist. ... The hill tribe growers use a technique called slash-and-burn farming to prepare the poppyfields for planting. ... Just before reaching maturity, the poppy plant produces a flower. ...

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Marijuana is in the form of a plant and is usually smoked in the form of a cigarette, or sometimes in a pipe, bong, vaporizer, or other types of smoking paraphernalia, or less commonly it can be ingested. ... Alcohol affects the liver and the brain, where the only affects of marijuana are some lost brain cells, which are probably almost the same amount lost as from drinking. In the long term alcohol will deteriorate the liver and kill just as many if not more brain cells than marijuana, also a person who smokes pot every day can still go through life do the things they would normally do, get...

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For instance, medical marijuana user William Foster of Oklahoma was sentenced to 93 years in jail in January 1997 for growing 10 marijuana plants and 56 clones. ... Cultivation of 100 marijuana plants or more carries a mandatory prison term of five years. ...

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