Russian authorities suggest allowing farmers to grow opium poppy. This plant, which is classified as a drug, can benefit the industry in the production of painkillers in the context of active import substitution in the country.

To date, more than ten drugs manufactured on the basis of opium raw materials are registered in the country. Almost all of them are medicines of vital necessity and the first degree of importance. According to experts, such drugs are manufactured at Russian facilities, but imported raw materials are used.

“It’s too early to talk about national security until we have the opportunity to grow opiates for drugs on our own,” industry experts say. “Russia should establish its own production of full-cycle painkillers for narcotic drugs and psychotropic drugs, growing raw materials on its lands.”

In particular, we are talking about a plant such as opium poppy, from which morphine, codeine and tebain, which are important in medicine, are extracted, while experts emphasize that these plants should be grown and processed under strict and vigilant control of state structures that are authorized to This activity was decided by the government. Poppy, as you know, is very popular among drug addicts.