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The poppy's pharmaceutical promise wrapped in centuries of empire, ecstasy, and ruin.
means A narcotic drug harvested from unripe poppy seedpods, source of morphine, codeine, and heroin.
from From Greek opion, the diminutive of opos, meaning vegetable juice or sap — literally the little poppy tears that ooze when the pod is scored.
Sumerian nameCalled the joy plant over 5,000 years ago.
Two warsBritain fought China to keep selling it.
Brain matchIt mimics endorphins your body already makes.