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The Supreme Court Allows: How You Can Lose Your “Rights” to Eating a Poppy Seed Bun

  • October 10, 2023
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Against the background of the global events currently taking place in Ukraine and Palestine, the connection between the revocation of a driver’s license and baking confectionery looks quite

The Supreme Court Allows: How You Can Lose Your “Rights” to Eating a Poppy Seed Bun
Against the background of the global events currently taking place in Ukraine and Palestine, the connection between the revocation of a driver’s license and baking confectionery looks quite surreal. This is partly why many Russian motorists do not realize that an innocent love for products containing poppy seeds can lead them into big trouble with the law at any time.

If you value your driver’s license, avoid eating food containing poppy seeds for at least a few days before driving! This conclusion can be drawn from the recent decision of the Supreme Court, which dealt with the complaint of a citizen named Alexander Startsev.

The latter asked to exclude poppy seeds for confectionery from the official list of narcotics in force in Russia. Previously, he was engaged in the delivery of food and spices, including poppy seeds, from Novosibirsk to Chita. A few years ago, local police arrested him for drug trafficking, with traces of morphine and codeine found in the poppy seeds he sold. Alexander is still in pre-trial detention and risks a prison sentence of several decades.

Now the Supreme Court has effectively confirmed that the dealer is standing for his business: selling ‘dope’. It follows that eating poppy in one form or another is effectively equivalent to taking drugs. After all, at least a small amount is present in absolutely all poppy seeds, including food.

The gourmet will of course feel no signs of intoxication after his scone and tea. But in addition, a certain amount of opiate substances, objectionable from a legal point of view, will end up in his body. Yes, there will be very few. But the testing systems that doctors use today to detect drugs are very sensitive. With their help, they “catch” even very weak traces of the use of all kinds of bad substances.

The note to Article 12.8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses directly states: liability occurs “in the case of the presence of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances in the human body”, period. Even if something, even the smallest, is discovered in you with the help of a urine test, deprivation of your “rights” and a fine are guaranteed.

And this despite the fact that the same article regarding alcohol prescribes its clear concentration in the body, under which the driver is considered sober. This absolutely dishonest story about “zero levels” of narcotics in a citizen’s blood is by no means new. Law enforcement, lawmakers and judges know about it. But no one is eager to make a change in this area.

It is clear that for any substance from the constantly renewed world arsenal of all kinds of ‘dope’ it is simply unrealistic to establish an acceptable concentration in the body. There will not be enough strength and resources. However, no one ever bothers to do this for a small list of substances (such as poppy seeds) that people have been using in their daily lives for centuries without the purpose of getting drunk.

But it is easier for the authorities to do nothing and hold all law-abiding citizens who get behind the wheel ‘at gunpoint’, oblivious to the ‘drug addict’ problems that threaten them. Therefore, for lovers of ill-fated pastries there is only one piece of advice. Traces of opium ingestion (eating poppy seeds) can be detected in the urine for three days. Remember this when starting the engine…

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If you value your driver’s license, avoid eating food containing poppy seeds for at least a few days before driving! This conclusion can be drawn from the recent decision of the Supreme Court, which dealt with the complaint of a citizen named Alexander Startsev.

The latter asked to exclude poppy seeds for confectionery from the official list of narcotics in force in Russia. Previously, he was engaged in the delivery of food and spices, including poppy seeds, from Novosibirsk to Chita. A few years ago, local police arrested him for drug trafficking, with traces of morphine and codeine found in the poppy seeds he sold. Alexander is still in pre-trial detention and risks a prison sentence of several decades.

Now the Supreme Court has effectively confirmed that the dealer is standing for his business: selling ‘dope’. It follows that eating poppy in one form or another is effectively equivalent to taking drugs. After all, at least a small amount is present in absolutely all poppy seeds, including food.

The gourmet will of course feel no signs of intoxication after his scone and tea. But in addition, a certain amount of opiate substances, objectionable from a legal point of view, will enter his body. Yes, there will be very few. But the testing systems that doctors use today to detect drugs are very sensitive. With their help, they “catch” even very weak traces of the use of all kinds of bad substances.

The note to Article 12.8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses directly states: liability occurs “in the case of the presence of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances in the human body”, period. Even if something, even the smallest, is discovered in you with the help of a urine test, deprivation of your “rights” and a fine are guaranteed.

And this despite the fact that the same article regarding alcohol prescribes its clear concentration in the body, under which the driver is considered sober. This absolutely dishonest story about “zero levels” of narcotics in a citizen’s blood is by no means new. Law enforcement, lawmakers and judges know about it. But no one is eager to make a change in this area.

It is clear that for any substance from the constantly renewed world arsenal of all kinds of ‘dope’ it is simply unrealistic to establish an acceptable concentration in the body. There will not be enough strength and resources. However, no one ever bothers to do this for a small list of substances (such as poppy seeds) that people have been using in their daily lives for centuries without the goal of achieving intoxication.

But it is easier for the authorities to do nothing and hold all law-abiding citizens who get behind the wheel ‘at gunpoint’, oblivious to the ‘drug addict’ problems that threaten them. Therefore, for lovers of ill-fated pastries there is only one piece of advice. Traces of opium ingestion (eating poppy seeds) can be detected in the urine for three days. Remember this when starting the engine…

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