Do all poppies create opioids that can be harvested?

The California poppy, Eschcholzia californica, is in a different genus than opium poppy. It does still have alkaloids that, when smoked, act as a very mild depressant, but it can't produce opium and is not considered valuable for recreational use. read more

Hogshire’s claim flew in the face of everything I’d ever heard about opium—that the “right” kind of poppies grow only in faraway places like the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia, that harvesting opium requires vast cadres of peasant workers armed with special razor blades, and that the extraction of opiates is a painstaking and complicated process. read more