Posted on 08/06/2015 10:13:47 AM PDT by Red Badger
The death of a Danish backpacker who drank a brew of tea made from poppies has prompted a warning from a Tasmanian coroner about the dangers.
Jonas Havskov Pedersen died on his 26th birthday in February 2014 as a result of morphine intoxication after drinking poppy tea.
He was on a working holiday at the time he climbed a poppy field fence somewhere between Jericho and Oatlands and took some poppy heads.
Mr Pedersen began to vomit several hours after drinking the tea and his travelling companion said he looked "scared" and did not "look right".
Both men eventually went to sleep in the van they were travelling in and the alarm was raised by his companion the next day when he could not be woken.
He was taken to a medical centre at Oatlands where a doctor concluded he had died.
Coroner Olivia McTaggart found Mr Pedersen had been aware of and understood signs prohibiting people from entering poppy fields.
But she said it was unknown whether he was aware of the differing varieties and varying strength of the poppies grown commercially in Tasmania.
The consequences of ingesting commercially grown poppies were "unpredictable" and Mr Pedersen's death demonstrated the dangers of it.
The coroner said there had been several deaths in Tasmania involving young people removing poppy heads and she did not feel it was necessary to make any new recommendations.
If only he had skipped over to the next field where all the cows were, he could’ve picked shrooms and we would not be mocking his unnecessary death right now.
I do not think anyone has ever died from eating shrooms, not counting accidental death.
People die from eating the wrong kind of shrooms.....................
I remember seeing those poppy fields when I went back packing through Tasmania 20 years ago. I never would have thought to stop, pick the heads off, and ingest them.
I often wonder why we don’t harvest poppies in Afghanistan for pharmaceuticals. They are experts at growing it and they could use a legitimate industry in that place.
“The coroner said there had been several deaths in Tasmania involving young people removing poppy heads and she did not feel it was necessary to make any new recommendations.”
How refreshing.
Here they’d be arranging another “study” and trying to avoid the inevitable lawsuit.
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Please tell me you're kidding....................please.....................
Somebody would steal those poppies the night before harvest.
If the safety of the farmers and their crops could be insured, you’re right, they could finally make money while doing something legal.
Sheesh, at 1st read, I though it said “ingesting puppies”.
Tasmania, not Korea.....
Sheesh, at 1st read, I though it said “ingesting puppies”.
So did I. My first thought was the only people who would do that work for planned murderhood.
Emily: Well, of course it’s dangerous to ingest puppies. They’re living animals with sharp little teeth and claws. I’m sure that they hurt going down.
(Emily... That’s “poppies,” not “puppies.”
Emily: Never mind.
Given the current amoral wave sweeping the West all one can do is standby and let the fools destroy themselves.
The legitimate pharm industry uses opium poppies for morphine and other opiates, but do they source from Afghanistan? If so, do they pay as much as the heroin folks?
He was Danish, not Korean!...........................
Tasmania, Big Supplier to Drug Companies, Faces Changes
produces $12 billion a year of opiate painkillers.
35 years ago, a couple of us were traveling out to the boonies in northern Thailand. We were stopped at a routine Thai police checkpoint, so we walked maybe 100 yards out to go take a leak. Just over a high dirt berm there was a big poppy field, LOL. There were Hmong people and opium smokers in the area. :)
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