Question

Morphine can be extracted from :
1. tobacco 
2. alcohol 
3. cannabis
4. opium 

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : opium 

The correct answer is Opium.

• Morphine is one of the many, and pharmacologically most important, opium poppy alkaloids (Papaver somniferum).
• Most of the alkaloid is in poppy milk - opium.
• It is a dried and properly processed juice with precut immature poppy-heads.
• It induces euphoria, somnolence, has an analgesic effect.

• Morphine is a pain medication of the opiate family that is found naturally in a dark brown, resinous form from the poppy plant.
• It can be taken orally or injected; it is also often smoked.