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Latex is a natural ingredient that comes from rubber trees in the form of a milky liquid. There are thousands of species of plants that produce different types of latex, including the Chicle tree that yields the raw material for producing the rubbery material in chewing gum.
Opium is the crudest form and also the least potent of the Opiates. Opium is the milky latex fluid contained in the unripened seed pod of the opium poppy. Baselt, Randall C., and Robert H. Cravey. Disposition of Toxic Drugs and Chemicals in Man.