Opiáceos en España: sube su consumo y los agricultores eligen el opio como cultivo

The heat wave has brought forward Julián's (Membrilla, 1994) harvest of 20 hectares of papaver somniferum on one of the plots of the family farm. Several years ago, his father switched from cereal production to growing opium poppies, the same type of poppy used to produce heroin in Afghanistan. Julián will be paid €1.08 per kilo of dried poppy bulb this year, so he expects to earn around €36,000 gross from that plot alone. A brief aside, for those who don't know, opium is extracted from this beautiful, pristine white flower. It is a powerful narcotic used by the Greeks and Romans for medicinal and recreational purposes, and from which laudanum is derived, an alcoholic tincture that contains a bit of everything, invented by the mystic and alchemist Paracelsus. The young farmer from La Mancha grows his legal poppies on land between Villarta de San Juan and Llanos del Caudillo (Ciudad Real), alongside his father, whom he recalls: "They came to introduce him to [opium poppy] cultivation 10 years ago, providing us with the machinery." The full report in EL ESPAÑOL's PORFOLIO 👇 https://www.elespanol.com/porfolio/ac... Want to see more videos like this? Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2s0lKRd Follow us on social media: Facebook:   / elespanol2015   Twitter:   / elespanolcom   Instagram:   / elespanol2015   TikTok:   / elespanolcom   Download our app: Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/es/app/el-es... Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...