Opium-Coca Leaves - 1930's-1940's dated Drugs Order Form - U.S. Treasury Departm for Sale

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Opium-Coca Leaves - 1930's-1940's dated Drugs Order Form - U.S. Treasury Departm For Sale

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Opium-Coca Leaves - 1930's-1940's dated Drugs Order Form - U.S. Treasury Departm:
$11.50

US Treasury Certificate for ordering 'Opium or coca leaves', etc. Series 1936. Fully issued. Vignette of poppies. Quite rare & unusual!!! Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum. Approximately 12 percent of opium is made up of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which is processed chemically to produce heroin and other synthetic opioids for medicinal use and for the illegal drug trade. The latex also contains the closely related opiates codeine and thebaine, and non-analgesic alkaloids such as papaverine and noscapine. 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 "opium-like", but now used to refer to newborn stools) historically referred to related, weaker preparations made from other parts of the opium poppy or different species of poppies. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium Coca is any of the four cultivated plants in the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America. Coca is known worldwide for its psychoactive alkaloid, cocaine. The plant is grown as a cash crop in the Argentine Northwest, Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.