Comment by rocket_surgeron

It is a common misconception that all poppies produce opium.

They do not.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of poppy varieties that produce no morphinan alkaloids.

Morphinan alkaloids become "opium".

https://www.poison.org/articles/what-to-know-california-popp...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10017456/