The Black Fortress of Opium

This is excellent work. Very well done, good interviews, and unflinching about the BS drug war.

I am an American that says let the poppies grow and be fruitiful.

I love those old-school documentaries, the atmosphere, the music, the calm and equable voice of the reader without high endings in the sentences is pure joy to watch and listen...almost brings you nostalgic feeling to the good old days 😌 Thank you!

They should have included a scene that showed how beautiful the fields look when they are flowering.

If it were up to me, poppies would be growing everywhere.

Hats off to these hard working ladies

Awesome. The plant has an crucial part in world history, highly sought after and gives a better life to these farmers

This was very interesting , informative and well done . A different perspective. Thank you

It’s not impossible to produce drugs from dried poppies. All you need to do is grind the pods and steep them in a slightly acidic solution for several days. Then collect all the liquid and reduce the volume under a low heat with a fan blowing over the liquid to assist evaporation. When done add slaked lime to precipitate the calcium morpenate and then follow the rest of the process which I will not write here. Sadly the prohibition has just made the environment ripe for synthetics and now we have issues with over 2 dozen different fentanyl analogies which are way more toxic and dangerous. Almost all overdose deaths from opium, morphine and heroin are due to combination with alcohol, benzodiazepines or other CNS depressants but fe Tanya and it’s analogues will easily kill if the dose is marginally too high.

it is beautiful to see something that is so demonized actually turned out to be something so good and healthy and beautiful even medicine.

If everyone was allowed to grow their own there would be no addiction issues.

I really enjoyed your show, I loved your camera editing and timing.

"We The People" need to dismantle and remove the ruling class and take back our country!

If it grows the governments shouldnt be able to tell anyone shit. Informing people of risk sure, jailing people that are trying to seek relief from whatever their pain is mental or physical shouldnt be a crime. Educating for responsbile use is all the givernment should worry about.

Facinating history of this this ancient plant. It is beautiful to watch grow and understand the sacred history. Thank you for excellent Journalism

Wow?! A documentary on poppies in Turkey! That took guts like the one done in the Burma golden triangle ... that’s bravery in journalism .

Big pharma dictating what, when, why, where and how.

How to use thm cause I have to take a lot of meds for severe back and neck pain along with bad miagrains will this help cause all the meds doctors give me make me sick. Plz respond.

in afghanistan after taliban the opium production gone up 10 fold or even more under USA supervision ,,and the trade is at its peak in history,,unbelievable,

Will always be here till the end of time...