Opium for the Masses: A Practical Guide to Growing Poppies and Making Opium
by Jim Hogshire 
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First published fifteen years ago, Opium for the Masses instantly became a national phenomenon. Michael Pollan wrote a lengthy feature ("Opium, made easy") about Jim Hogshire in Harper's Magazine, amazed that the common plant, P. somniferum, or opium poppies, which grows wild in many states and is available at crafts and hobby stores and nurseries, could also be made into a drinkable tea that acts in a way similar to codeine or Vicodin. With Opium for the Masses as their guide, Americans can show more learn how to supplement their own medicine chest with natural and legal pain medicine, without costly and difficult trips to the doctor and pharmacy. show lessTags
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Jim Hogshire is also the author of the award-winning book Pills-A-Go-Go.
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- Important places
- Afghanistan; Turkey; Tasmania, Australia
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- Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 615.7822 — Applied Science & Technology Medicine & health Pharmacology and therapeutics Medicines grouped by effects Drugs acting on nervous system hypnotics
- LCC
- RM666 .O6 .H64 — Medicine Therapeutics. Pharmacology Therapeutics. Pharmacology Drugs and their actions
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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