this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2024
71 points (100.0% liked)

Strange Times

784 readers
1 users here now

News about weird nature, unusual happenings, and fringe claims. #anomalies #animals #nature #Fortean #paranormal #cryptids #weather

Run by @[email protected]

RULES:

  1. Read any article linked prior to commenting.
  2. No tabloid links, junk sites, or crank content. Reference high quality news sources.
  3. No personal experience posts unless you have solid evidence in support.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 10 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago

While poppy seeds do not contain opium, authorities fear they could be contaminated with opiates, a class of drugs that can relieve pain and cause drowsiness.

This whole thing is clearly ridiculous, but that's a hilariously dismissive way to describe opiates.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

This is HILARIOUS because my girlfriend LOVES this seasoning and was just visiting from Korea and was searching online to see if she was allowed to bring it back 😂😂😂. People on the Korean forums were saying stuff like "omg americans are so addicted to drugs they even put them on their foods" and we were dying 😂

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ignorant and idiotic. Like banning hemp rope for its relationship to cannabis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

don't give them ideas 😆

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, you can live without hemp rope, but cannabis is very illegal in South Korea, so they're fine removing everything hemp

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Analogies are hard? Cannabis is harmless. Poppy seeds are harmless. Poppy seeds are related to opium the same way hemp is related to weed. Just like hemp/cannabis, not all poppies can make heroin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I read that poppie seeds regularly contain too much opioid and have to be pulled from sales. Hemp rope on the other hand is made from the stem of the plant, not the flower, so does not or barely contains THC.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Ah yes.... Poppy seeds

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Get in loser, we're smuggling everything bagels into South Korea

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

FYI: This type of news is stretching the appropriate subjects for this Community:

"News about weird nature, unusual happenings, and fringe claims. #anomalies #animals #nature #Fortean #paranormal #cryptids #weather"

~Moderator