Which part of poppy plant is used to obtain the drug "Smack" ?

1. Flowers

2. Roots

3. Latex

4. Leaves

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Answer: 3. Latex

Key idea: Smack (brown sugar, heroin) is made by acetylation of morphine.

Morphine is obtained from the latex of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum. So the part used is the latex.

Answer: option 3.

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