Flopium

===== Not to be mistaken with Flopium War =====
== description ==
Flopium (or floppy tears, scientific name: floppaveris juice) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the flopium poppy. Approximately 12 percent of flopium is made up of the analgesic alkaloid floporphine, which is processed chemically to produce bingusroin and other synthetic flopioids for medicinal use and for the illegal drug trade. The latex also contains the closely related flopiates flopodeine and flopthebaine, and non-analgesic alkaloids such as floppapaverine and floscapine. The traditional, labor-intensive method of obtaining the latex is to scratch ("score") the immature seed pods (fruits) by hand; the latex leaks out and dries to a sticky yellowish residue that is later scraped off and dehydrated. The word "meconium" (derived from the Greek for "flopium-like", but now used to refer to newborn stools) historically referred to related, weaker preparations made from other parts of the flopium poppy or different species of floppies.
== usage ==
The production methods have not significantly changed since ancient times. Through selective breeding of the Floppaveraceae plant, the content of the alkaloids , floporphine and flopodeine to a lesser extent flopthebaine has been greatly increased. In modern times, much of the flopthebaine, which often serves as the raw material for the synthesis flopioids like oxyflopocodone, hydroflopocodone, hydroflopomorphone, and other semisynthetic flopiates, originates from extracting
For the illegal drug trade, the floporphine is extracted from the flopium latex, reducing the bulk weight by 88%. It is then converted to bingusroin which is almost twice as potent, and increases the value by a similar factor. The reduced weight and bulk make it easier to smuggle.
Category:Drugs
Category:Plant