This Plant Is Dangerously Addictive 

Your confusion of the opiate vs opioid is actually a fundamental flaw in this video- the current problem is with completely synthetic opioids, natural herbal opiates are often much more helpful than they are dangerous when administered appropriately. Analgesia is not a sin, pain relief is a vital part of medicine.

I always thought it was funny when Dorothy "fell asleep" in the field of poppies but then was rejuvenated by a bit of "snow"

In the U.S. In my observations, the potato has been the most addicting plant. Especially fried and covered in salt.😜

Blue poppy seeds are highly sought after for artisanal baking purposes. The cold pressed oil from poppy seeds is also highly sought after by artists into oil painting.

It's crazy that something so essential in modern medicine and helping people can be such a major problem as well. These little flowers really do have the power to save a life, or take it.

They grow naturally in a lot of places in Germany, still today. As children we always harvested the seeds, either to eat directly or to bake bread or kake. We knew their use as painkiller and addictive drug, we were educated about drugs and drug addiction from very early age. So we always only had interest in the nice tasting seeds.

In my country there is wide cultural base of growing poppy. Slavic people use poppy a lot without any tought of opium (they get drunk a lot though). Poppy is often used with soft pasta dumplings and in cakes. Not bagel with a little pinch on top. More like 40% of whole cake is poppy. It is so tasty...

Poppy seed bread is sooo nice, as someone from Czech republic where the seeds are a popular ingredient in sweet foods. It's cool to know more about the plant... and this does explain the drowsiness cartoon characters seem to get from poppies.

There used to be an old lady in our small countryside town who always had those in her garden. They always suspiciously disappeared all at once too once the flower was out of bloom.

They grow here everywhere in my field in Pakistan. We make a natural painkiller from the dried latex called "afeem". It's basically opium.

Psychedelic therapy is just one of those great leaps in the mental health space . It's wonderful and the fact that they serve recreational use and health as well. I can't deny tripping is fun every once in a while.

This is safer than fentanyl.

You should talk about rhubarb and related plants. It’s one of my favourite vegetables from the garden and is related to buckwheat. It’s stem is safe to eat, but it’s leaves are slightly toxic and people have died eating the leaves in times of food shortage.

It's not even Friday. Why are you doing this to me on a Tuesday? I can't even pick up my pain prescription until tomorrow, lol, just giving ya'll a hard time, I love this channel. Last month, my local pharmacy was all out without any idea when it would be back in stock! I have stage 4 cancer with a tumor growing on my spine. (Please don't wish me a fast recovery because I'm stage 4, forget words like recovery and remission.) Pain is real, and milkweeds are real. We evolved alongside each other for all time. Why is it so bad to let patients have pain relief? As for all the overdoses, I don't blame the plant itself. *Overdose REQUIRES the user to go off script.* It means *that person took more than the prescribed amount ON PURPOSE without consulting their doctor.* Don't demonize the substance, but recognize how we criminalize addicts who deserve to be seen as PEOPLE with an ADDICTION. ADDICTION is a MEDICAL PROBLEM, not a criminal problem!

If you visit Turkey, find a pastery and buy "haşhaşlı ekmek" which is bread with poppy seeds; it should look like cinnamon rolls from top. It belongs to city of Afyon (which literally translates "Opium") and it's neighbor city Eskişehir ("Oldcity") but you may find same or similiar tastes in other cities and bakeries. Freshly brewed Turkish tea and poppy seed bread, that's all you need for a meal.

When I was little, my grandmother had poppies at her garden. They lasted for a couple months because whenever the flowers bloomed, they suddenly disappeared. She would say to me that people used them to get high. That was the first time I learnt about plants and their flowers as medicine or drugs.

What about a little overview of Datura aka Moonflower. I think it has quite a rich history to talk about.

It would be awesome if you could go through all the psychoactive plants - coca plant, tobacco, khat, ephedra, hemp...

I was surprised she used the term "opioid" to refer to compounds derived from the plant. "Opiate" usually refers to plant-derived drugs. "Opioid" refers to something made without the plant being involved at all. It's a blurry line I guess. But the point being, fentanyl is completely synthetic. It is not technically an opiate, but rather an opioid. I know I know, semantics.

This plant is a miracle to those living in rural areas without hospitals. Locals will smoke some before medical/dental procedures in Vietnam and I'm sure other countries as well

Edit, had to add. I wrote my original post not for praise or to be congratulated. The commented wasn't suppose to be about me. No. I wrote for those that ARE addicts, and think THEY can't stop. Original post... "I was an addict. It's not impossible to stop. It just feels like it." ... Also, I'm wrong, I'm still an addict. Right now, it's day three of quitting cigarettes, maybe this is why I'm ready for an argument with anyone about anything at this moment. ...

In Hungary until 2004 it was common that people grow poppy ('mák') at hom gardens. Mostly to take the seeds out of pods to add to cakes. However a few junkies made a special brew to get high, in a country mostly alcoholics it was a harmless crop. Actually poppy seed is similarly part of our national identity as paprika.

Opium dens is where the term Pipe 'Dream came from. Anyway, it is amazing that ONE plant on the whole planet can deliver the major pain relief we need. Where would medicine be without it? I googled other pain relief measures. It came back with aspirin, ice, massage, exercise, physical therapy, acupuncture and relaxation training. I bet without this plant, surgeries would drop off by 99%

Please talk about the Daffodil sometime in the future. It is interesting. It only blooms in spring and is actually toxic. But humans use them as decorations everywhere in their yards. Also I know they grow from bulbs and reproduce that way...but do they ever produce seeds? Just how did they evolve? What purpose do they serve if they are inedible? Other than being pretty because they are cute

Poppy seeds are quite weak on small quantities so you have to coat a pastry completely to taste them significantly. They taste amazing as a crispy Turkish bagel though, especially steaming hot right out of the oven.

So glad you did a video on this! These flowers are so fascinating in the wild effects they can have on us.

It is also one of the most effective pain control methods when not abused… and unfortunately, many pain patients that can benefit from opioids have been denied helpful medicine due to misrepresentation of opioids and opiates by media and even those in the medical and law enforcement industries.

This is an indigenous plant in Turkey, it grows naturally in the wild, there is even a crity called Opium, and yet people used it for the entire history for medicinal purposes, they even gave it so babies to calm them down, they made teas against sleeping problems. There was no known opium crisis ever. Yet trade of it caused extreme problems other places. A culture naturally developed around it gives people some kind of sense to not abuse it, yet suddenly introducing it causes a lot of problems. Regulating it and exposing the people gradually is the better way to control a substance.

Nicely encapsulated: a lot of history, a variety of uses, and a head full of chemistry! All rolled up in a nice package- this video of course... How about a video on euphorbia? Have you done the spurges yet? Or Syrian Rue, the Acacia tree, or the Boswellia tree, from which Frankincense is derived?

I love your videos! They show how plants really do shape civilization. Can you do one on zinnias? They have a fascinating history, and I love them so much I named my daughter after them.

Hey small note. As part of my masters work I was involved in testing addiction rates for various plant alkaloids. We were testing new analogs of glaucine and the yellow horned poppy. We also included nicotine, morphine, and caffeine as known compounds. Nicotine when combined with the Maoi found in tobacco won as most addictive 2 of 3 trials. So pure nicotine is weaker than pure morphine when it comes to causing self administration. But when you use a full plant extract. Tobacco knocks opium wax out pf the park. We had rats vomiting and then instantly going for more tobacco, heaving, more tobacco, heaving, more tobacco. It's scary watching how much pain they are in litterally suffering overdose symptoms and still administrators more depending on the specific alkaloids balance. We also found that depending on the cigarette brand we got the tobacco from there could he way more maoi than normal. Like the cigarette tobacco was bread to be more addictive over time

My grandmother was the parole officer who discovered that poppy seeds could have you fail a drug test after her parole failed but she trusted him and researched everything he ate that day. 😊 Ina Piette she’s alive 93 years young

A plant that has a reputation of starting a couple wars, called the Opium War and the War against Narcotics. It also symbolizes the fallen soldiers of WWI. And is in Minecraft. Everybody's favorite Troll is named after the flower and even her dress is made from a poppy.

Love your work, and how it’s communicated to the audience. Keep it up.

If you could do a video on the Oleander, Yew berry, or the Manchineel tree, That would be awesome! They're pretty poisonous plants and I think they deserve their own videos!

Have you ever thought about covering the chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao? Just a thought-suggestion

Shame we still have a "war on drugs" in modern times.

amazing video! loved the host as well great energy! : ) I've always loved poppies, it's amazing how it makes so many of the important medicines we need as well!

I've had a poppy seed false positive on a drug screen from using an everything bagel seasoning that had lots of seeds in it. Then I made the mistake of paying for a retest of my sample thinking that it would absolve me. Instead it came back positive for codeine and morphine. This was in 2022 btw.

So I am confused about how a poppy seed would end up in the urinary tract, I thought urine came from the kidneys, which filtered it out of the blood? How would a poppy seed end up in the blood?

Very good video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us! I would love to see a video about fungi and it's spores next.

I smoked opium when I was a teenager. The only words that came out of my mouth was, "I feel like a flower." 😂 I had no idea it was an actual flower! 🤣

“Delicious, decorative, and dangerous..” She forgot “delightful!”

Used to boil the pods to make tea. Have never had such a relaxing, restful sleep in my life. It is indeed VERY addictive. Can't say that I regretted it...but the comedown can be a bit rough.

The opium poppy is so essential to humanity that it's almost impossible to get a prescription of opium derived medication 😤 I suffer severe lower back arthritis caused by crushed lumbar discs, as well as bilateral sciatica and doctors look at me like I'm an idiot when I ask for pain relief. So I ended up planting my own poppies in the hopes that I'll never have to see another doctor, regarding my pain, ever again.

It’s interesting that people knew about the mind altering uses but didn’t ban anything until recently. It’s almost like the plant itself is benign, it’s how we use it.

You seem like someone fun to have a drink and watch science documentaries with. Much love. Thanks for the video.

The carti influence is outrageous

AFAIK, in the EU only Poland and Austria allow farmers to grow it and only with a special permit for obvious reasons. However, both countries have a strong cultural bond to that plant and are using it quite heavily in their traditional cuisine. Thus, in other countries of the EU you might only find it in botanical gardens. I knew someone who planted them in Germany, but they got harvested every time by trespassers... (I don't know what they did with it as you can't make the drug that easily, but you could use it like the old Greeks perhaps)

I'd love for you to talk about Jimson Weed/Datura. I worked in mental health and had a guy on my caseload who consumed so much he had permanent neurological problems.

I love your house plants back ground ! I'm studying everything plants to make my own video and help my son write essay in college. Fascinating history I'm digging into ! Digging it ha!

I grew up loving this flower. Nothing screams "SPRING!" like a field of red poppies.

Animalogic alliterations about addictive anaesthetics are admirably assembled and annunciated astonishingly adeptly.

The only addiction is the humans wish to escape. Not the drug itself.

Im truly obsessed with these videos and I hope to watch one every day of my lifee

I love this! I always learn something on this channel!

If you could do an episode on hemiamphora that would be cool. (yes I know you did an episode on pitcher plants in general, but these are the oldest ones)

I'd love to hear about febrifuges - that is, plants that have historically been used in medicine to help treat fever. Hyssop, feverfew, and others - or even maybe the happy marriage of medicinal plants and honey for cough syrup?

Dear Mz. Amazon, I love your shows! Very informative, fascinating, interesting, and so much fun! I would not know about many of the plants and trees you feature without your show. And….let’s not forget the hilarious out takes at the end. Hysterical! Why don’t all episodes show the outtakes? Will you please create more, more, more of your Floralogic shows? Happy weeding😂

- I always thought it was from the seed, not the latex wow. That's amazing. Thanks for sharing. I love poppy seeds

It was really great that you did this! A drug series would be really interesting (drugs coming from plants/animals of course). My choice for next video: The Iboga Tree. I forget if it is the bark or the root of the plant, but it makes Ibogaine, which I used to help get myself off of Fentanyl. Only thing that has ever worked.... It is the most powerful substance I have ever taken!

We were harvesting poppy plants before we were human beings. It is the plant of the Gods.

These grow in abundance where I live in the seattle, Tacoma area. When you lacerate the seed pods you have to be very careful to not cut to deep into the pod or all the latex will drain into the center of the pod and be impossible to get to. Its true. You definitely can get a dirty UA after eating poppy seeds.

Glad to see you back!

Como siempre digo, interesante programa. Se aprende porque se aprende. Gracias animalogic.

I think tobacco should own this title

Hey Floralogic, can you do a vid exploring the Staghorn Fern? I never heard of it before today, and they're so unique looking 😮🌿

It's great that Tasha is finally properly lighted and doesn't look like an orange :)

They're the basis of opiate drugs, not opioid drugs. Small distinction, but its in how your brain processes them.

Humans should never have extracted and concentrated milk of the poppy, that was where we went really wrong. Natural plant poppy milk is qay less addictive and more usable than anything today.. it's such a low dose but also full Boyd high helps better with all of the plants oils being in the milk and not just morphine.

The coffee plants right now at your title 👁️👄👁️

This plant is beautiful and a blessing if you're not greedy..

Do one about the orchids that are pollinated by mosquitoes!!!

I’ve been prescribed opiates before. Took them for a few weeks and absolutely hated every minute of it. They killed my fine motor skills. I’m fascinated by the intense addiction others feel for it.

Killed a lot of my friends, my sister and a lot of loved ones used it to commit suicide. I've never shot up, but I'd be lying if I said I haven't ingested it in other ways. So sad, it's a terrifying monster, the worst monster this world has ever seen.

You definitely need your own channel Is the Papaver poppy I grow in my wildflower meadow a dangerous plant also?

plants are so freaking neat 🪴

SUGAR AND CIGARETTES THE MOST ADDICTIVE.

Ok I've got a question. Poppies are one of my favorite flowers. can you buy seeds that don't have the opium factors?

In California, Poppies are our state flowers

don't panic, it's organic !!!!

7 years clean eX-heroin addict. The U.S. needs to legalize EVERYTHING. Heroin is useful and has its place in medicine. But I'd rather get it from a pharmacy than a dealer. With the option for treatment offered alongside the medicine and harm reduction supplies.

As a chronic pain sufferer this is my most favourite plant

"you can trick any drug test with powdered bleach" -uncle fester

The colors are so nice on such a deadly plant. It's all in how we choose to use the things we were given

Would be interesting to hear theories about how and why this evolution occurred

15 years of addiction from a broken bone in my hand when I was in college. Your telling me. 7 years clean

I’m an ex heroin user. Well cocaine too. Speed balls. BUT my Korean landlord growns poppy and makes some really relaxing tea that I like a lot. She makes soap out of lime trees that is the best soap I’ve ever used. Bless her. I was homeless for 10 years and I stopped using in 2016. Doesn’t mean I won’t enjoy some wine now and drink her tea sometimes when my hip gives out. I don’t really get high from it, just slightly relaxing and pain relief. I think shrooms or San Pedro cactus is the way to go. Marijuana too. Helped me get my life together.

Is there already something about Aconitum or Digitalis purpurea? Both of them are highly toxic and at least Digitalis is used for medicine. (Aconitum seems to have some interresting stories.)

Can we talk about wild cabbage. Because I am fascinated by the fact, that cauliflower and kale are the same plant

We grew some in our garden last year. The flowers are beautiful but they don't last long.

Amapolas are delicate and beautiful flowers. Had them in my mother’s garden growing up

I've always loved kolache, even though it's supposed to have no medicinal benefits.

This fails to mention the important fact that a lot of heroin/opioid addicts are chronic pain sufferers. It's a beacon of hope when all other treatments have failed. But, as someone with chronic nerve pain, I avoid opioids like the plague. Yes, they're the only pain relievers that work for me, but I KNOW that means I'm at an extremely high risk of addiction. I've heard of a new, equally powerful but non-addictive pain reliever derived from cone snail venom. I'm putting a lot of hope into that medicine. I want my life back.

Regular users can live a reasonably long life as long as they avoid overdose. Most of the harm arises due to its illegality.

The wildflower called Florida lettuce has a white sap inside the stem that is subtly mood improving. I was profoundly depressed when my mate died. I used to take a sip or two from this wild plant that grows on my farm here in Louisiana. I was feeling so low at that time that I looked upon this plant as a medicine and far more effective than any of those anti-depressants that I never take. Florida lettuce is very pretty. A tall plant with lovely little lilac-colored flowers blooming along the stem. Did not know of the sap until a swamper told me about it.

Poppies get a bad rap. Its BS!

Tell me your woke without telling me your woke.

:D Yay another episode of Floralogic!!

Oooh you guys should definitely talk about the Thismia genus!