Re: Free Poppy Seeds
- To: k*@quack.kfu.com, s*@nr.infi.net, M*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Free Poppy Seeds
- From: "* B* <s*@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 11:25:34 PST
>>As I recall, you can get false positive drug tests if you eat a poppy
seed
>>roll 12 hours before being tested.
Yep, it happened to a basketball team a couple years back.
>I don't think the morphine is destroyed by baking; it's quite stable.
It's certainly not destroyed through smoking!
>You may, however, notice a calming or soothing effect after eating
>poppy seeds - that's a small dose of morphine. It's present in all
>sorts of plant material, for example, in most pasture grasses. Diary
>cattle are able to concentrate quite a bit of it in their milk and
>this perhaps accounts for the frequent (old-wives?) prescription of
>milk as a sedative.
I thought that was because of seratonins in the milk that calm
young-uns. As for me, I'm off to the german pastry shop for a couple
pounds of mohnstrudel! I can see it now...addicted to Frau Woerne's
poppy-seed pastry, loitering in front begging for change, offering to
clean the floors for just one more bite...
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