Poppy straw: Difference between revisions

}}</ref> The [[straw]] was originally considered an agricultural [[by-product]] of the mechanised poppy seed harvest, which was primarily grown for its edible and oil-producing seed. This changed in 1927 when János Kabay developed a chemical process to extract [[morphine]] from the crushed capsule.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bernáth|first1=Jenő|title=Poppy the genus Papaver|date=1998|publisher=Harwood Academic Publishers|location=Amsterdam, the Netherlands|isbn=0-203-30418-7|page=vii|edition=2000 eBook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iThGU8hdTIIC&lpg=PP6&pg=PP6#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=16 July 2015}}</ref> Concentrated Poppypoppy straw consisting mainly of the crushed [[Capsule (fruit)|capsule]]without the seeds<ref name="WDR2009"/> soon became a valuable source of morphine. Today, concentrate of poppy straw is a major source of many [[opiate]]s and other [[alkaloid]]s. It is the source of 90% of the world supply of legal morphine (for medical and scientific use)<ref name="WDR2008"/> and in some countries it also is a source of illegal morphine, which could be processed into illegal [[heroin]].<ref name="WDR2009"/>