# Honey made primarily from cannabis or poppy plant flowers **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 11, 2002, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-made-primarily-from-cannabis-or-poppy-plant-flowers/123439 "2002-08-11T22:57:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-made-primarily-from-cannabis-or-poppy-plant-flowers/123439/1 "2002-08-11T22:57:06Z")
Does honey made primarily from cannabis or poppy plant flower pollen/nectar retain the active ingredients and/or effects of these plant based drug sources? ---
**Author:** ![tcburnett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@tcburnett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tcburnett)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-made-primarily-from-cannabis-or-poppy-plant-flowers/123439/2 "2002-08-11T23:46:41Z")
You can eat all the poppy honey you want and still pass a drug screen. ---
**Author:** ![JKB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@JKB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKB)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-made-primarily-from-cannabis-or-poppy-plant-flowers/123439/3 "2002-08-12T02:45:41Z")
Too bad. For a moment there I thought we had a way to calm down killer bees (: ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-made-primarily-from-cannabis-or-poppy-plant-flowers/123439/4 "2002-08-12T07:29:26Z")
The active ingredients of various psychoactive plants (THC in the case of marijuana hemp and various alkaloids in the opium poppy) are all in the resins of those plants, not the pollen. So you can eat all the poppy pollen you want and rest assured you won’t end up like Burroughs. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-made-primarily-from-cannabis-or-poppy-plant-flowers/123439/5 "2002-08-12T11:46:00Z")
Honey made from nectar collected from Rhododendron flowers is toxic ([cite](http://www.science.siu.edu/plant-biology/PLB117/Nickrent.Lecs/poisons.html)), although I believe the toxicity naturally breaks down after a fairly short period of storage. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-made-primarily-from-cannabis-or-poppy-plant-flowers/123439/6 "2002-08-12T11:49:26Z")
Lenz’s Law: > [@](#): > > An electric current induced by a changing magnetic field will flow such that it will create its own magnetic field that opposes the magnetic field that created it. My school physics teacher described this as “the sod’s law of the universe”. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-made-primarily-from-cannabis-or-poppy-plant-flowers/123439/7 "2002-08-12T11:50:49Z")
sorry, that reply was meant for another thread :o ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-made-primarily-from-cannabis-or-poppy-plant-flowers/123439/8 "2002-08-12T12:17:29Z")
> [@](#): > > Honey made from nectar collected from Rhododendron flowers is toxic (cite), although I believe the toxicity naturally breaks down after a fairly short period of storage. The phenomenon of toxic honey (“Mad Honey”) was well known to the Classical World. Adrienne Mayor did an article on it in (I think) **Archaeology** less than ten years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-made-primarily-from-cannabis-or-poppy-plant-flowers/123439/9 "2002-08-12T12:27:14Z")
Cannabis is pollinated by wind, not insects anyway.