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Illegal Poppies
Illegal opium poppies (Papaver somniferum)are worth the risk from the DEA. I was quite amused to read the front-page news in July about the huge opium poppy bust in a nearby community. If you missed it, federal drug enforcement agents raided a ... [... more]
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Perky Poppies
For such a breezy, fluttery flower, the poppy carries some heavy baggage. The Shirley or rhoeas variety, pictured to the left here, is the most familiar. But any discussion of the family Papaver must, of necessity, be dominated by that most ... [... more]
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Poppy: The Genus Papaver
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 580 EAN: 9789057022715 Edition: 1 ISBN: 9057022710 Number Of Pages: 225 Publication Date: 1999-01-26 [... more]
CDN$135.39
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Perennials: The Definitive Reference With Over 2,500 ...
Amazon.ca: The deceptively simple title, Perennials, doesn't begin to do it justice, but this scholarly tome's subtitle, "The Definitive Reference with Over 2,500 Photographs," begins to give some idea of its scope. Authors Roger Phillips and [... more]
CDN$45.00
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Opium: A History
From Amazon.com: With personages from Khun Sa to Coleridge to Kurt Cobain populating its far-ranging pages, Opium: A History provides a comprehensive look at the drug as it's been used, abused, fought over, and profited from throughout the millennia. In [... more]
CDN$19.75
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Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft
Wonderful overview of medicinal plants....: PHARMAKO-DYNAMIS and PHARMAKO-POEIA by Dale Pendell contain much of interest to gardeners, artists, historians, drug counselors, and drug users. Pendell suggests that how a plant substance is defined (poison, [... more]
CDN$26.50
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Oxy
excellent: its a excellent book on the alkaloids of papaver somniferum. its intented for those chemistry types in a way, not for someone who is interested in just growing the poppy. shows you how to extract thebaine, morphine and make heroin. elaborate [... more]
CDN$33.29
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Opium Poppy: Botany, Chemistry, and Pharmacology
Useful With Many Shortcomings: Note that this book is written for scientists. It will not appeal to readers looking for an introduction to the opium poppy, nor those who are not fairly well educated in chemistry and biology. For those looking for [... more]
CDN$40.08
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