On July 27th, Calgary police raid the backyard of a 62 year old man.

Police even called in a specialist from the University of Calgary to make sure that these poppies were in fact the opium kind. It was confirmed.

Opium from the the poppy plant can be used to extract drugs such as codeine and morphine, and can also be converted to heroin.

Duty Insp. Kevan Stuart said that since this is the first bust of its kind, it’s too soon to draw any links to international dealers or organized crime.

Others want Canada to grow?

Glen Metzler, head of Metzler Trading Company Ltd. in Lethbridge says he has writen to the Alberta government about allowing farmers to grow opium for pharmaceutical use. He has also writen to Alberta Health about growing for commercial purposes could be lucrative for Alberta farmers, who could turn to Australia as a model.

“Australia’s been growing poppies for 40 years now and very successfully,” he said. “They’ve had up to 22,000 hectares into production. For their farmers, it does exceptionally well.”

Facchini says, Canada is the world’s no. 1 consumer of codeine, importing an estimated $100 million worth of opium-related painkillers every year. (are we all really that sick?)

My question is, what stops people from just going on to a farmers field and getting themself some Opuim poppies for illegal drug use - the farmers themselves could do the same.

 Jared is one rich son of a monkey! He was 16 when he started this thing! Comeon! He’s a multimillion-air! If only I came up with that idea. Just a way to speed up bank transfers. But he’s smart and deserves it, to bad he doesn’t even have a deploma. Poor him. Although he’s not gonna need it!  Yo mom I’m dropping out…. to start a credit card company!

This is my dream - but not in a credit card company!

 

Great work Jared Isaacman!

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Teen’s business idea makes him rich

Oct. 12: Jared Isaacman, 16, had an idea to improve credit-card transactions that is now worth more than $50 million. NBC News’ Bob Dotson reports from Atlantic City, N.J.