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Opium vs Hemp - What's the difference?

opium | hemp |

As nouns the difference between opium and hemp

is that opium is opium while hemp is a tall annual herb, cannabis sativa , native to asia.

opium

English

(wikipedia opium)

Noun

  • (uncountable) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum , and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
  • (countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.
  • * "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, . . . It is the opium of the people." -

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    hemp

    English

    (wikipedia hemp)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa , native to Asia.
  • Various products of this plant, including fibres and the drug cannabis.

    • Related terms

    * hempen * cannabis * marijuana * THC

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