http://www.google.com/search?q=australia+opium http://www.marathon.uwc.edu/political_science/opiumprod.html "With over-production of licit opium by Turkey and Australia (which is technically not permitted to grow poppy under international conventions), India reduced its licensed acreage from 63,000 to 11,000 hectares." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8118257.stm (June 25 stoned wallabies story) http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/08/news/08iht-poppy.t.html "Australia is arguing that it should be given better access to the U.S. market...Australia, which started its commercial opium poppy industry in 1970, is already the world's largest legal producer" http://www.abc.net.au/ra/innovations/stories/s2443748.htm "for 20 years was the world's biggest poppy producer until 2004 when it was overtaken by France" We're investigating a very exciting crop for us which is called Papaver bracteatum. So the normal poppy that is grown around the world is called Papaver somniferum and that's an annual crop. With this crop we're doing some trial work on is a perennial crop. So we plant this once and we expect to get three to four years out of the crop. It has benefits to farmers in that it's a more robust poppy species and you don't have the risk of germination each year once it's established.
The other key difference between this poppy and the normal poppy is whilst the normal poppy Papaver somniferum is very high in morphine. This poppy does not have any morphine at all in it. It is high in a different alkaloid called thebane. And since the early 90s, thebane has been commercially of interest as it's used for a lot of the other products for pain relief such as Oxicodone. But also interestingly, a lot of the products that are actually used for opiate substitution treatments, such as Bupremorphine, Naloxone and Naltrexone are other products that are obtained from thebane. And this poppy is a very high-yielding thebane, much higher than the standard poppies which are either genetically altered or they are sprayed with treatments to change them, from producing morphine to producing thebane. These plants do it naturally so we're very excited about this and think there is enormous potential for us and also the farmers that grow with this. A mystery solved « Waterloo Idler 6 hours ago by Gavin Anyway, what the Australian farmers on Tasmania have found is that wallabies occasionally get in to the opium fields and eat the poppies. Apparently after a while they begin to act strangely and hop around in circles before falling down ... http://preacher35.wordpress.com/ Mystery Solved: Blame "trippy Skippy" « Randomness and Waffle 14 hours ago by Ali Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said. Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like ... http://randomnessandwaffle.wordpress.com/ Deepen the Conversation: Black Opium Symposium 12-3-2009 by i...@qtix.com.au (qtix Box Office) Black Opium Symposium A groundbreaking book inspired one of Australia's most distinguished indigenous artists, Fiona Foley, to create a complex, powerful and immersive public artwork: Black Opium. After reading Rosalind Kidd's. http://www.qtix.com.au/rss/index.aspx Sustaining opium reduction in Southeast Asia | Australian Policy ... 8-16-2009 by paitken 17 August 2009Since 1998 opium production in Southeast Asia has declined by some 67% from 1437 tons in 1998 to 469 tons in 2007. The area under cultivation has also declined by over 80% from 158230 hectares to 29200 hectares during the ... http://apo.org.au/ 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles' My Blog 6 hours ago by admin -like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine. She was reporting to a parliamentary hearing on security for poppy crops. Australia supplies about 50% of the world's legally-grown opium used to make morphine ... http://www.thesharingparadise.com/ --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, micha...@... wrote: > > Colla' Walla or drug smug? > " Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles > as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said. > Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said > the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for > medicine ." This is from BBC `'Stoned wallabies make crop circles' at: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8118257.stm > > This article is a repeat of a similar one. Though it is listed on hottest > of BBC's read-list it is not even listed on the Internet drop list and > buried on the Asian-Pacific area page. Why so hot? Why so hot even when > so buried? Is it the funny part or the not so funny? > > Now this in New York Times. Was on front page: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/health/12medicaid.html?hp > > (quote) " Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics > New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children > covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate > four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And > the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe > conditions than their middle-class counterparts, the data shows ." > (unquote) > > Putting these two stories together you can see how illegal drugs and > pharma have combined to addict as many as possible illegally or legally. > > What are kids doing on antipsychotics anyway? Seems mostly for being > noisy and for being kids. Easier when they sit stoned in front of the TV. > Other Wallaby story showed too much grown for just morphine. > > Leads to questions that we don't want to ask ourselves such as: > > 1- Laws don't work. Medicine is controlled. What does work? Only change > in public attitudes--- but how? Must think in terms of general public.., > Joe-six-pack. > 2- So many complain about illegal drugs being the money to support inside > international CIA-type security operations. I say `CIA-type' as CIA and > KGB were combined in early fifties with other nuclear powers to form > inside security to secret non-use-of-nuke deals. Same op is security for > anything else now up to nanotech. These activities cost. How else would > you fund? Seriously. This is facing life on life's terms, not relying on > dreamy platitudes. If this were to seriously be replaced you might need > to start with throwing out political `isms'. This is not undoable with > the masses, but difficult. > > Example from another conversation: There was talk about CIA Director Adm. > Stansfield Turner when he tossed knuckledraggers. Adm. Turner somehow > got the mad idea that he could rely entirely on technology, i.e. > `listening devices', and therefore did not need `humtel' human > intelligence operatives. First thing was that thousands of humtels simply > went `off reservation' to the other side for jobs. No biggie, a job is a > job. At higher levels there is no `off reservation'. To put that in > another frame realize that spying must be legal in the real world but has > only remained illegal because with the masses the patriot game works and > other games don't. So we lie. We `level', we `compartmentalize', we > paste confused-grin over knowing-smirk. > > To a great extent this is a psychological exercise. The `upper' chit-chat > now is the Red Book, the book that was written by Carl Jung that his > family would not allow published until 2001 as it would have made him look > a bit whacky. (A new copy is $114.00 bucks!) In the Red Book he states > that the ultimate process is your own inward venture. But mine seems to > go in two areas. One is the nice-nice talk of new-age. Many of these > things I believe in. Another is real world horror. I have seen first > hand the horrors of crack and how evil it is that we foster that on Blacks > but only cocaine on Whites. But trying to `fix' that is asking to be > permanently fixed yourself. Life on life's terms means life has its own > terms. > > I hear 'CIA and drugs', sob sob..., 'CIA and drugs', sob sob.... So what > is the real solution? > > In other words: I am just seeing what happens when I switch icons. Where > do you get `in the zone'? > m >
