Yeah, then the black market goes from some cartel pipeline to someone in your neighborhood. There's a huge difference in regards to funding violence.

Except Joe who grows weed in his cupboard isn't really capable of producing heroin let alone the extraordinarily dangerous opium derivatives that pharmaceutical are pushing on doctors.

If Joe can grow weed in his cupboard, he absolutely can grow poppies and produce opium. The process is not complex.

The required acreage to yield opium in significant quantities is way beyond a closet (or even a basement). Not to mention that heroin is ~1% of total opium weight.

If we're talking about Joe's personal use, a single poppy plant produces multiple doses, according to this[1] reference and some anecdotal drug forum dose suggestions, on the order of tens of mg.

1.https://erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/opium.html

>produces multiple doses

Could you tell me what number "multiple" is and what a "dose" looks like?

Are we talking about raw plant material that is opium, or refined heroin/morphine/codeine? The conflation of the word drugs and plant material seems like the most absurd gorilla in the room.

Off to do some coffee...

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