How complicated is the actual medicine production process from raw poppy materials to the finished product?
A. As a nineteenth century medicine, the extraction of morphine from raw poppy materials is relatively simple, requiring inexpensive chemicals and simple chemical processes. Ten kilograms of raw poppy materials yields approximately one kilogram of morphine medicines. In carefully controlled local medicine factories, Poppy for Medicine project participants will produce pharmaceutical-grade morphine medicines from locally-cultivated poppy harvests, with the support of international experts.
