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Post by Platypus on Jul 30, 2009 6:50:42 GMT -5
www.poppyseedtea.com/I never knew people used this stuff, but just in case anyone ever recommends it to you, this is a story of a mother whose son died from drinking tea made from poppyseeds. Apparently it is very addictive and leads to awful withdrawal symptoms and an intolerance to morphine used after major surgery. If you see your teenagers making it, be aware that even though poppy seeds are a common product, drinking tea made from them is very dangerous. 
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Post by AnnieOkie on Jul 30, 2009 9:39:39 GMT -5
Thank you so much for posting this, Platy. I have never had any reason to suspect my sons of experimenting with drugs, but I do talk to them about the dangers often. I intend to tell them about this fad in case anyone ever suggests it to them. Thanks again. Who knew....  |
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Post by breakingfree on Jul 30, 2009 9:40:47 GMT -5
Thank you so much for posting this, Platy. I have never had any reason to suspect my sons of experimenting with drugs, but I do talk to them about the dangers often. I intend to tell them about this fad in case anyone ever suggests it to them. Thanks again. Who knew.... For real...I never had any idea either. Scary to ponder what "they'll" come up with next... BF |
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Post by eagle on Jul 30, 2009 13:24:13 GMT -5
How very sad that this has happened. I do hope it doesn't mean the end of poppy seeds in coleslaw and on baked breads, though.
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Post by notsomessyshell on Jul 30, 2009 17:08:52 GMT -5
What?! OMG this is the first I have ever heard of this. I just googled it and found so many sites that explain how to do it and how it makes them feel. I am stunned. Sometimes freedom of speech comes back to bite us in the butt.
Thanks for the info.
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Post by Lucky Laura Loving Life on Jul 30, 2009 19:35:10 GMT -5
Yikes! Who knew? I do remember being told to avoid the "everything type bagels since I was job hunting and they said the poppy seeds can cause you to test positive for drug use.Here in NV almost everywhere makes you take a drug test so I avoid the poppyseed stuff like sometimes you see those lovely lemon poppy seed muffins & such.
Love,Laura
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Post by Meme on Jul 30, 2009 21:21:00 GMT -5
oh my- never heard of the tea but it is in most rye breads and they make me sick so if I want rye bread I have to read all the ingredients-- I do know that poppy seed cake can cause one to test positive for drugs if they over eat it the day before---
also when papa went to vist his son in jail they had poppy seeds on the list of things not to touch before the visit as they to a patch drug test on visitors hands and forehead-
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Post by Blackswan on Jul 30, 2009 23:39:44 GMT -5
This is sad, but it makes me want to go out and have some! I won't though, I promise.  One more thing to avoid.  |
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Post by Alexandra on Jul 31, 2009 0:59:25 GMT -5
Heroin is made of poppies, so that's why you'd test positive after eating something with poppy seeds in it.
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Post by mellowyellow on Jul 31, 2009 11:03:55 GMT -5
It doesn't mean you have to stop eating bagels and desserts. It just means you have to be careful about the quantity you ingest. As with many foods, there are dangerous elements. Coffee is also a substance that many people consider addictive, yet many of us indulge. If we drink too much, it can be extremely damaging. Yet many of us weigh our love of it, with its dangers. Peach pits and other pits including cherries, apples, plums, almonds, peaches, apricots, and crabapples--contain in their seeds a form of cyanide. I imagine many of us have swallowed an apple seed at some point. And I have to admit that I've eaten the inside part of a peach nut, whenever it's cracked open. Dangerous? Maybe. I think it all rests with the notion of quantity. A lot of herbal teas and "remedies" do more danger than good. A lot of them also upset the natural balance of our body. I don't mean to minimize the situation that happened with that one teen boy, but reading Wikpedia, it stated in the footnotes that the specific details of his use were in question. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_teaMy advice would be to eat foods in their natural forms as much as possible, and to read and educate yourself. But also not to panic unduly. P.S. I am allergic to morphine (I had a horrible reaction after surgery one time and have had to avoid it as a pain medicine ever since), yet I still eat poppyseed cake, with no adverse reaction. |
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Post by breakingfree on Jul 31, 2009 11:16:34 GMT -5
After reading the website I conducted further research and read an ABC News article about this which stated that there have not been any additional substantiated deaths caused by this. Like mellow, I do not mean to belittle what happened to those poor people's son, but anything used for a purpose other than its original intent or used in excess can cause damage or death. I can just envision the government crying out for the illegalization of poppy seeds. Look at how many remedies that do work that have been taken off the market because people double, triple, or quadruple the dose. This ticks me off because the actions of a few people have ruined perfectly good medicines for the rest of us. One example is the medicine that was in the "old" Alka-Seltzer. Since they took it out it just hasn't worked the same. Another is Ephederine. I know that people use it to make meth, but it irritates me that law-abiding citizens have to produce their drivers' license and the government monitors how much a person purchases. This product, by itself, causes no harm if one takes it according to the recommended dosage and is perfectly legal. BUT, because some scum use it as one of several ingredients in making an illegal drug, law-abiding citizens suffer.
BF
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Post by still on Jul 31, 2009 18:35:32 GMT -5
Breakingfree, very good point! Two medicines that I miss very much are the cough syrup terpin hydrate (might not be spelled right) - which was nearly a miracle cough syrup for our family and OTC originally - and one of the topic antibiotics that would kick any kind of bacterial infection into next year with only a few applications (can't remember the name).
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Post by Meme on Jul 31, 2009 19:26:44 GMT -5
yes- my understanding after reading this web site and others that they were over using this as a tea in order to produce an high-- I know at one time there were some kind of coffee bean you could buy and chew - not sure if it is still available not but some parents here were allowing their teens these as for some reason they thought it would keep them off drugs- thank goodness they are not banning coffee for this--
it is not fair that the rest of the ordinary folks have to have things unavailable = my concern is how many folks are going to read this site and think they can use poppy seeds this way but they have better control?
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Post by Platypus on Aug 1, 2009 20:07:02 GMT -5
There is no ban on poppy seeds over here and as just about anything can be abused everything would end up being banned, if tyhe banned poppy-seeds. We have a few big employers who may do pre-employment drug testing but that's about all, so I have never heard of people not eating poppy-seed cakes. Hmm, now I want a piece of orange & poppy-seed cake!
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Post by Alexandra on Aug 2, 2009 2:24:59 GMT -5
Lemon poppyseed muffins...mmmmm.....
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