Okay, get this: Somebody has got a mutant poppy–named Norman–who is entirely morphine free. As a result, he may hold the key to developing less-addictive painkillers and addiction treatment drugs.
I’m not making this up.
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I read this headline 3 times before I realized it said POPPY and not PUPPY. I was SO confused for a minute there. The fleeting idea that my dogs had a street value was pretty enticing though.
Me, too.
haha… i thought it read “puppy” too. i thought to myself, “a mutant dog without morphine? how is that a medical breakthrough??”
Four for four, par for the course.
me too. It’s natural to assume that, with a name like Norman, we must be talking about a puppy. Everybody knows that ‘Norman’ isn’t a good name for a poppy plant — whether mutant or not.
Indeed, perhaps a mutant puppy without natural opiods in the brain or something. Ah weel.